Quotes About Fiction

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to Middle Earth.

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

I don't like sci-fi/fantasy.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.