Believe Quote by Shahad Ameen

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

— Terry Pratchett

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

— Neil Gaiman

To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don't buy into the notion that because it's fantastic, it should be unrealistic, because…

— Peter Jackson

I'm a realist. I'm not living in a fantasy. I know what's what.

— Jared Cannonier

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

— Lana Del Rey

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

— Alan Cohen

People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures. . . . There's nothing incredible about it.

— Joe Orton

It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as we dream,…

— Walker Evans

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

— Maurice Sendak

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

— Sylvester Stallone

“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

I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary…

— Kate Forsyth