Europe Quote by Leigh Bardugo

“There's something terribly weird about the standard fantasy setting--not least of which the fact the phrase "standard fantasy setting" can be uttered without irony.”

— Yahtzee Croshaw

Britain proves to be an ideal setting for many a medieval-minded crime novelist, regardless of century.

— Sarah Weinman

It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up,…

— Norman Rush

The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D…

— Paul S. Kemp

I'm a big believer in respecting the fans. How do I make a science-fiction or fantasy setting relatable? How do you make the characters…

— David Nutter

When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“SCIENCE AROSE ONLY IN Europe because only medieval Europeans believed that science was possible and desirable. And the basis of their belief was their…

— Rodney Stark

“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound…

— Freeman Dyson

“Beneath the pseudo-scientific terminology one can in each case recognize a phantasy of which almost every element is to be found in phantasies which…

— Norman Cohn

“The dominance of the man on horseback was challenged during the fourteenth century in what some historians call the infantry revolution. English longbowmen and…

— Max Boot

“Trickster foxes appear in old stories gathered from countries and cultures all over the world -- including Aesop's Fables from ancient Greece, the "Reynard"…

— Terri Windling

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound…

— Freeman Dyson

America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

“n medieval Europe, a new slave would place his head under his master’s arm, and have a strap placed around his neck, in imitation…

— David Livingstone Smith

“Memory of the elderly monk survived in the accounts of some of the greatest leaders in medieval Europe, along with lengthy accounts in the…

— Michael Rank