Quotes About Fantasy

There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.

There's a very strong force in Tolkien's characters.

When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.

I really respect and admire Tolkien. I think he was the most honest of the Romantics.

Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn in, perhaps as something in me resists the epic, medieval-feeling fantasy.

I loved Tolkien and I loved 'Star Wars,' which was the first memory that I have being in a movie theater. And, of course, that was the defining movie for me as a kid.

I'll be Spider-Man. I'm just kidding, I love Tom Holland.

there is more Magic in the world than most scoffing people credit.

In our dreams we are always young.

I read sad stories to inoculate myself against grief. I watch action movies to identify with the quick-witted heroes. Both the same fantasy: I'll escape the worst of it.

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

Peter Pan is great in a book -- but in real life, people who don't grow up, they're a fucking nightmare.

We need Harry Potter.

The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.

Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

The day had begun to feel tinny: a pretend day, a dream day, that for some unaccountable reason she had to go on and on with as if it were real.

You yearn for a simplified lifestyle, so that your communication with Me can be uninterrupted. But I challenge you to relinquish the fantasy of an uncluttered world. Accept each day just as it comes, and find Me in the midst of it all.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

What's it like where they live?" "It's everything you want it to be.

We're not in Fairyland! We're in Kansas!

Ainsi, j'ai aimé une chose qui n'existait pas.

NÄ›kdy si ráda pÃ…â"¢edstavuju, že bydlím s pÃ…â"¢ízraky. Ne s tÄ›mi ze své minulosti - v takové nev??ím -, ale s pr?hlednými kusy myÅ¡lenek a knih visícími ve vzduchu jako hedvábné loutky.