Quotes About Inspiration

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.

Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

I always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Nely Cab, Marker of Hope