Fantastic Quote by Rosemary Jackson

“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

“It seemed to us that the fantastic can be, can do, so much more than its detractors assume: it can illuminate the real, it…

— Neil Gaiman

“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

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

— Marcus Speh

“If man's capacity for the fantastic took up as much of his imagination as his capacity for cruelty, the worlds, seen and unseen, might…

— G. Willow Wilson

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

— Mary Lindsey

“You ask me what you will be there. But what are you here? What are you creatures of Fantastica? Dreams, poetic inventions, characters in…

— Michael Ende

“It's amazing how something that had, in concept, seemed so insignificant to my life could not become my entire world.”

— A. Meredith Walters

“We live in a reasonable world which tells us the incredible is impossible. But reason is about to be swept aside in the new…

— Kirkland Ciccone

“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

“I realize that I have been thrust into an existence so vast in both scope and complexity that I cannot hope to understand that…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich