Fantastical Quote by Marcus Speh

“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

“Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended…and then believe it.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“To master magical realism, one must make the real seem unreal but, more importantly, make the unreal seem real.”

— Kevin Ansbro

“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

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

— T.B. Christensen

“The impression that what is extraordinary is real, and that the real is the extraordinary.”

— Hélène Berr

“It's difficult to reconcile the fantastic with reality; hard to accept that things we can’t see exist—terrifying, in fact.”

— Mary Lindsey

“When the real and the imaginary become indistinguishable the real becomes a fetish.”

— Volker Grassmuck

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

— China Mieville

“I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master . . . The quality that had enchanted me in his…

— C.S. Lewis

“It is the fantastic realization of the human essence because the human essence has no true reality.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“I love fantasy woven through the backdrop of realty.”

— E.B. Hood