Quotes About Fantasy

It was no dream she said. Dreams fade. Reality doesn't.

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

the year she had run fleetly through the dewy grass under the moon- the night of wine, when dreams condensed out of thin air like the nightmilk of fantasy.

What we've got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

King looked back at Roland. As The Man With No Name--a fantasy version of Clint Eastwood--you were okay. A lot of fun to partner up with. Is that how you think of it? Yes. But then you changed. Right under my hand. It got so I couldn't tell if you were the hero, the antihero, or no hero at all. When you let the kid drop, that was the capper. You said you made me do that. Looking Roland straight in the eyes--blue meeting blue amid the endless choir of voices--King said, I lied, brother.

Plus, dreams don't have to be logical, do they? Dreams are poems from the subconscious.

There are other worlds than these.

What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

I don't want to be a Disney prince. To hell with that. If I have to be a prince, I want to be a dark one.

When had men not been mystified by women? They were the magic that men dreamed of, and sometimes their dreams were nightmares.

Some people have remarkably sturdy illusions.

Movies, they were the thing. Movies took you away. You could count on popcorn and happy endings.

A dream, a wild dream of removing ourselves from the cares and sorrows of this miserable world and creating a world of our own. A long shot, yes, but who's to say it can't happen?

Reading and writing is an escape for me. Where I can imagine and become who I want to be when I want to be. Where I want to be, it's just a matter of having the imagination to do so!

In fairy tales they all seem perfect, but really they are just as troubled as we are!

I have had you in my life for so long, I want to know when the dream ends and the fairy-tale begins...

Let us runaway to the aspirations we dream of in our childish moments, where magic is real and we are unstoppable.

We only live if we dream.

What is more terrifying-- the things we imagine or the things that are real?

Kristin Cashore, Fire

The most beautiful word in the dictionary is IMAGINATION.