Fantastic Quote by Rosemary Jackson

I feel like we've found an interesting little corner of the sandbox here as far as the way we're telling sci-fi stories. I don't…

— Colin Trevorrow

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can…

— Simone Weil

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

— Charles D. Broad

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by…

— Michael Richardson

“Henry,' at last said one, again dipping the spoon into the flaming spirit, 'hast thou read Hoffman?' 'I should think so,' said Henry. 'What…

— Hain Friswell

“He hoped and feared,' continued Solon, in a low. mournful voice; 'but at times he was very miserable, because he did not think it…

— Fitz James O'Brien

“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

“The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of…

— Michael Richardson

“The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge…

— Lars Gustafsson

“Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination,…

— Franz Rottensteiner

“Many of the best fantastic stories begin in a leisurely way, set in commonplace surroundings, with exact, meticulous descriptions of an ordinary background, much…

— Franz Rottensteiner

“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