Quotes About Fantasy

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

That, to me, is the core of fantasy - real people in a crazy environment, dealing with crazy problems. That's what I think the books of 'The Witcher' did really well, and it's what attracted me to them, in the first place.

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

Fashion is intoxicating, and it plays a part in all of our everyday lives. A lot of people use it as a form of escape, of realising a fantasy, and in some ways that becomes an unobtainable norm.

Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J. M. Barrie, that it gets closer to the human experience than realism every could.

The 'Dezeen's of this world are extremely inspirational but have no realistic dimension any more.

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.

I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.

I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way.

I thought, well, what about a show that stars undersea creatures, and some of the ones you rarely see animated. So, from there, I just started drawing different animals in a kind of a setting that was this nautical world. It's not realistic but sort of a fantastic environment.

I wanted to be a doctor originally; that was my realistic dream, because I knew how to get there. Being a pop star was my wild dream, a fantasy - there was no direct route.

For me that's the magic of the printed page - we don't have to pay attention to the passage of time and focus in on the realities of these characters at a specific age or at a specific time in their lives, and we can play with that to our hearts' content.

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

I might have some delusions of grandeur.

My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.