Commonplace Quote by Grant Bowler

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

— Alan Cohen

Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

— Skrillex

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

— Laura Esquivel

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

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

— Jean-Pierre Melville

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

— Lance Henriksen

Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some underworld, watch…

— Karen Russell

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

— Lloyd Alexander

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

— Terry Pratchett

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

“People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.”

— Salman Rushdie