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Fantasy Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Fantasy doesn't have to be fantastic. American writers in particular find this much harder to grasp. You need to have your feet on the ground…
- Humans need fantasy in order to be human.
- Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.
- 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…
- 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…
- Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I…
- Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.
- I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which…
- Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves…
- You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we…
- Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
- Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
- I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her…
- They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is…
- Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows…
- What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?
- But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream…
- When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
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- 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
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