Books Quote by Brandon Sanderson

Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.

— N. K. Jemisin

“Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh…

— Leonard S. Marcus

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

— Don Roff

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

— Neil Gaiman

The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the…

— Kate Forsyth

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

— Italo Calvino

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

— Jasper Fforde

“Fiction is a vehicle to escapism. But fantasy, in my opinion, is escapism in its most vibrant and enchanting form.”

— S.J. Pierce

The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show…

— Jimi Hendrix

In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance…

— Jane Yolen

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

— Mohsin Hamid

“Sometimes, we need a little bit of fantasy to help soften the edges of our reality." ~Nathan Nelson, Blindsided (Authors Chris Almeida & Cecilia Aubrey)”

— Chris Almeida