Quotes About Fantasy

The power of daydreaming is similar to the power of well-made movies that can make you cry or make you laugh.

El sistema reconoce que existen al menos seis maneras frecuentes de distinguir entre verdad y fantasía

Real life doesn't have many happy endings. Why shouldn't books make up the difference?

I kissed him once, she whispered. Well done. What did he do? Um... Deryn sighed. He woke up.

Fairytale: presents impossible events under possible or almost impossible conditions as though they were possible.

She found the page, cleared her throat and began to read, " 'There was nary a doubt that I had ever seen such big ones, round and ripe. My teeth ached to bite them' " God, what tripe!

Supervision, he says, is really a shared fantasy of what is actually going on – it is the result of a "trainee trying to imagine what he and his patient have been doing together and the supervisor (plus case seminar participants) trying to imagine it too." Supervision works best, he says, "if all parties remain aware that what they are jointly imagining is not true.

If I were serious I would never have become a wizard, would I?

All its dimensions with their projected geometries are those of an unrealisible dream.

So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.

The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.

In my story I do not deal in Absolute Evil. I do not think there is such a thing, since that is Zero. —The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, no. 183

Vrys' First Law: If you deny reality, you must invent a fantasy.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)

The stories were always looking for a way to be told, to be brought to life through books and reading. That was how they crossed over from their world into ours.

This world was not like the world of his stories.

They were both an escape from reality and an alternative reality themselves.

Each man dreams his own heaven.

Just then a little lady appeared. 'Who are you?' said Dorothy. 'I am the Good Witch of the North,' the little lady replied, 'and if you put on the Wicked Witch's silver shoes . . .' 'I'll look like Lady Gaga.' '. . . you'll have magic powers. Now where would you like to go?' 'Anywhere that Andrew Lloyd Webber is not.

it is a Tale. Only it's longer and stranger than we imagine. Longer and stranger than we can imagine. So what you must do—" she opened her eyes "—what you must do, and what I must do, is forget.

Im James Bond. Im Jason Bourne. Im Super-freaking-Mario come to life.

tales of Castle Perilous are as endless as the worlds it contains. Only a relative few of them have been set down.… … Which brings

We are a rugged species, up for anything the universe can throw at us; and as the great gloominaries knew, we will be immeasurably better prepared for nasty surprises if we approach the universe realistically — pessimistically — than if we continue to peer out at our surroundings through a distorting, rose-colored prism of wish-fulfillment fantasy.