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Fantasy Quotes by George R. R. Martin
- The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment…
- Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.
- Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a giant of fantasy…
- We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.
- A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we…
- I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit…
- An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king,…
- I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
- I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.
- There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.
- Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.
- Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
- As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I…
- I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound…
- Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't…
- You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of…
- They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.
- A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies..
- Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown…
- The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
- I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.
More Fantasy Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works… — Michele Bachmann
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what… — Francis Bacon
- I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just… — Amy Adams
- In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical. — Scott Bakula
- There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances,… — Christian Bale
- The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its… — J. G. Ballard
- I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I… — John Banville
- We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry
- I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer… — Charles Baudelaire
- All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. — Max Beerbohm
- About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. — Manolo Blahnik