Believe Quote by Chris Van Allsburg

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

— Andre Breton

“Supernatural fiction contains its own generic borderland: a neutral territory, which Tzvetan Todorov calls 'the fantastic,' between 'the marvelous' and 'the uncanny.' According to…

— Howard Kerr

“The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.”

— Rosemary Jackson

“As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane, and when…

— Franz Rottensteiner

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

— China Mieville

I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's something a…

— Sasha Roiz

“The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality. It points…

— Michael Richardson

“It should be particularly stressed that the fantastic makes no sense in an out-and-out strange world. To imagine the fantastic in it is even…

— Roger Caillois

As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from…

— Colin Wilson

“I love the way folktale and fantasy tap into the roots of story telling. The paradox, for me, is that by moving a story…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!

— Gary Gygax