Fantasy Quotes

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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. — Lionel Trilling
The difference between science fiction and fantasy â€¦ is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees. — Orson Scott Card
Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way.… — Stephenie Meyer
Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire,… — Diana Wynne Jones
Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic… — Rob Zombie
Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies. — Christopher Darden
A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring. — Juan Ramon Jimenez
There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is… — Jeanette Winterson
We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the… — Richard Hofstadter
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. — Marc Chagall
The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as… — Maria Tatar
In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality. — Syd Mead
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. — Elizabeth Moon
Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When… — Ellen Kushner
People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean,… — Frank Miller
So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there… — Terry Pratchett
At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview. — Morinosuke Kawaguchi
I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand… — Jean M. Auel
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read… — Terry Pratchett
That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the past and defend… — Robert W. Firestone

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