Fantastic Quote by Michael Richardson

“The fantastic postulates that there are forces in the outside world, and in our own natures, which we can neither know nor control, and…

— Franz Rottensteiner

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

— China Mieville

“The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.”

— Rosemary Jackson

“As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane, and when…

— Franz Rottensteiner

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

— 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

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

— Mary Lindsey

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

“More interestingly, it could be argued that, if fantasy (and debatably the literature of the fantastic as a whole) has a purpose other than…

— John Clute

“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

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

“For my present purpose I require a word which shall embrace both the Sub-Creative Art in itself, and a quality of strangeness and wonder…

— J.R.R. Tolkien