About Quote by Helen Oyeyemi

“In life, you will hear many fantastical and astounding things, what is important is sorting out the fact from the fiction.”

— T.B. Christensen

“It’s a novel, right? What’s it about?” Why did people ask “What is it about?” as if a novel had to be about only…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment…

— Charles Nodier

“If I cared what people thought I probably wouldn't be a fantasy author.”

— Nicholas Taylor

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

“Science fiction and fantasy, though they seem to be about the future or fictional worlds, are always at their core really about the problems…

— John Joseph Adams

“Fiction is a mix of reality, the interpretation of that reality and a lot of "what if".”

— Jim Sellers

“Using something real does not destroy the fantastical; it underlines it.”

— Marcus Speh

“Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.”

— Laura Resnick

“Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman