Books Quote by Shane Warren Jones Download Open image “I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.” — Shane Warren Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Fantasy Get back Literature Reality Should Thinking
I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Today, fantasy is, for better or for worse, just another genre, a place in a bookshop to find books that, too often, remind one… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. — Katharine Kerr Copy Share Image
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“I’ve read science fiction and fantasy all my life – though when you’re a child, they just call that “books.” The first book I ever read on my own was The Neverending Story . I studied classics at university, and in ancient literature, monsters, witches, magic, curses, and impossible machines aren’t genre, they’re just Tuesday afternoon. I had no idea… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I like horses. My grandfather had a horse named Whiskey and I got to ride it all the time. They are terrifying and beautiful.… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games,… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
I'm a white guy listening to the Cure and thinking about Pynchon influences. — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
Death is terrifying and beautiful, a final thing we can all do together. — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul. — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
