Quotes About Fantasy

Date troppo corda alla fantasia. La fantasia è un'ottima serva, ma una pessima padrona. La spiegazione più semplice quasi sempre si rivela esatta.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia

Someplace that feels impossible - as impossible as time travel.

I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.

The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

She had seen this man before, in a daydream. In a nightmare.

Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?

It was the Cheshire Cat who had said to Alice, "I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.

To interviewers who lamented that life in the time of plague had become so unreal, I'd reply that no, actually *this* was real. What's unreal is the fantasy we humans have been living: growing on and on, in denial of the obvious.

Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of crazy, and then you personally, heroically resolve them.

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

When I was a kid, I saw 'Peter Pan,' and I loved Captain Hook and the Lost Boys because they were the 'bad boys.'

I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men.' Or play Peter Dinklage's cousin on 'Game of Thrones.' That would be fun.

It's the Peter Pan in me, I don't think I'll ever grow up.

As a kid, I read 'Peter Pan,' and I really wanted to be him.

Peter Jackson has the sort of imagination that no one else has.

'Peter Pan' is tried and true - it's a story that everybody knows.

I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little - I always wanted to be a girl who could sit on a man's lap, but that is just not going to happen.

I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.

It is a labor of love, but there is a lot of labor, especially when you're trying to build a big, epic world with lots of details and a kind of physics of magic that makes some sense and actually has some rules to it.

The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesn't obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.