Cost Quote by Stephen King

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

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction…

— Robert Jordan

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can…

— Terry Goodkind

I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.

— David B. Coe

Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader.…

— E. M. Forster

Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This…

— Daryl Gregory

“When you mix Science Fiction with Fantasy you don't have a pure genre, the two are, to a professional separate genres. I noticed today…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power,…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition:…

— Arthur C. Clarke

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction…

— Ray Bradbury