About Quote by Richard Matheson

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

— Raymond E. Feist

I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin.

— Jeff Giles

The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and…

— Robin McKinley

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

— Lloyd Alexander

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I…

— Michael Morpurgo

“Writing YA fantasy books is like sneaking out after dark, falling down the rabbit hole and ending up in the most exciting world... ever!”

— Carolyn Hockley

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the…

— Karin Tidbeck

I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

— Nicholas Sparks

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t quite of…

— Stephen King

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida,…

— Terry Brooks