Fantasy Quotes

1557 Fantasy quotes by 1144 unique authors

Keep in mind the public has been brainwashed, and nearly 80% of what is known about me is fantasy and self serving theories of the… — John Wayne Gacy
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. — James Russell Lowell
It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted… — Chloe Sevigny
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. — Manuel Puig
Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who… — Terrence McNally
People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures. . . . There's nothing incredible… — Joe Orton
The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are… — James Hillman
It's important for little girls to have characters to look up to, and also be entertained by the fantasy parts. There are a lot of… — Phoebe Tonkin
Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy. — Lloyd Alexander
Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost. — Lloyd Alexander
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 … 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

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