Blindsided Quote by Chris Almeida

“Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh…

— Leonard S. Marcus

“Creating fantasy is real work, important work. It’s a hard, cold world we live in, and sometimes we need to escape. Sometimes we need…

— G.A. McKevett

I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J. M. Barrie,…

— John Tiffany

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance…

— Jane Yolen

“know a lot of people who hide out in fantasy because reality is too hard to cope with [...] Fantasy isn't about escape; it's…

— David Gerrold

When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.

— Walt Disney

“Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.”

— Sharon Salzberg

Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the human condition,…

— George Clayton Johnson

“I've always felt that the reality of life is best expressed through allegory that transcends...well, the reality of life. Fantasy is the lens through…

— Brea Nicole Bond

“Fantasy, though, is a literature of things beyond explanation. It calls us back to childhood, either the childhood of our species, before we knew…

— Roger Bellini