Quotes About Fantasy

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

life is more beautiful in dreams than in real..

Love is fantasy....Life is reality

You can use your imagination to get exactly what you desire.

Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head.

Thus the tired fantasy of cheap, abundant nuclear power needs to be buried alongside the Eisenhower-era propagandists who dreamed it up in the first place.

Consider the way that so many people nowadays use the word "imaginary" to mean "unreal." In actuality, of course, what we imagine is real in its own way, and it can be powerful and important as well.

What never yet was heard in tale or song,From old or modern bard, in hall or bower.

Two figures joined the witch, a skull head and a pumpkin head.

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged . One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." [ Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera , blog post, March 19, 2009]

There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

Finding a sense of hope and working towards positive change, irrespective of our circumstances, is healthy. Living out the fantasy that every dream can be achieved is not.

High characters (cries one), and he would seeThings that ne'er were, nor are, nor ne'er will be.

This story is going to take you on a very curvy path, leading you step by step into ideas, theories, worlds and counter worlds that will seem wholly false, and yet… Deep down in the depth of your mind, no matter how crazy and off the wall it all seems on the surface, there will still be a ring of truth in it. Your adventure begins now!

Her earnestness and apparent belief of what she narrated, excited the interest even of Aubrey; and often, as she told him the tale of the living vampyre, who had passed years amidst his friends, and dearest ties, forced every year, by feeding upon the life of a lovely female to prolong his existence for the ensuing months, his blood would run cold, whilst he attempted to laugh her out of such idle and horrible fantasies

he soon formed this object into the hero of a romance, and determined to observe the offspring of his fancy, rather than the person before him.

When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange, because it began before I even knew what a city was.

A giant magic mouth appeared.

So, Iften is of the Pig. That explains a lot." Keir's head jerked up, and he laughed out loud.

J.R.R. Tolkien reminds us that to leave fantasy in the nursery, or to believe that there is some particular connection between fairy tales and children, is to forget that children are not a separate race, a separate kind of creature from the human family at large.