Allegorical Quote by China Mieville

Monsters are a departure from 'reality' in a way that allows for a range of fantastic possibilities. I mean this within the world of…

— Emil Ferris

“I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at…

— China Mieville

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales…

— Denis O'Hare

One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

— Joseph Campbell

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.

— Peter Benchley

About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the…

— Lois Tilton

The beauty of the original monster movies is that you were able to relate to every single character, or even to treat their monstrosity…

— Sofia Boutella

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

— Ray Bradbury

To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And…

— Noah Baumbach