Books Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“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

“Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for,…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“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

“I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is a genre…

— Dean F. Wilson

“It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.”

— George Orwell

“There are systems upon systems that are incredible but possessed of a pleasing architecture or a certain agreeable sensationalism. The metaphysicians of Tlön seek…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“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

“The world of books is my fantasy.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“fantasy gives meaning to the suffering.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“A fantasy is something produced in the imagination, allowing you to indulge in a thought life that is very different from what you experience…

— Anonymous