Quotes About Fantasy

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

It was the first time I realized that absolute reality could be so much more fun than fantasy.

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

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

John Lennon, Beatles Lyrics

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.

We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

Every Imagination can be an Amazing Truth..

There was a time when I could put the palm of my hand flat on the front of a tattered paperback called The Dying Earth and feel the magic seeping through the cardboard: Turjan of Miir, Liane the Wayfarer, T'sais, Chun the Unavoidable. Nobody I knew had so much as heard of that book, but I knew it was the finest book in the world. (Castle of Days, 211)

I mean, if you could have a wizard grant a wish, would you waste it on going to Kansas?

Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age! Honey, he's four thousand years old, Veronica said.

He turned into a rhinocerous, Ms. Smirt said. He does that, Sabrina said.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.