Attics Quote by Terry Pratchett Download Open image “Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.” — Terry Pratchett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attics Fantasy Furniture Modern
Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all… — John Orloff Copy Share Image
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I love the word 'fantasy'... but I love it for the almost infinite room it gives an author to play: an infinite playroom, of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies. — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect. — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Let me quote once more from Tolkien’s lecture, which he delivered a few months before the fantasy-besotted Nazis started World War II. “Fantasy can,… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I always kinda liked our attic ghost. When I was a kid, I used to go up there and read stories to it. Show… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
“The attics of the mind hold onto their dusty secrets and free them at inappropriate moments.” — Judy Croome Copy Share Image
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