Quotes About Adventure

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

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

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

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.

My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

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.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.

Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.

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.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff. I think it's so cool.

Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief