Quotes About Fantasy

With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn't notice and maybe still don't. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.

Fucking dragons

I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love.

I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

I believe almost every men have some kind of fantasy for action scenes. I'm one of them, and I just can't be so sluggish.

'Outlander' is based on a group of books; there's a slight fantasy element to it, but ours is authentic - we try to stick to historical accuracy as possible. Ours is about a small group of people and a core relationship rather than big armies.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

I think I'd want Tommen'to fight the Hound! And the Mountain! The Hound and the Mountain on one side, and Tommen on the other side. That would be so sick. Tommen would smash it!

The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.

It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the market. I thought, 'I've become the kind of crap you buy at airports!' It was exciting, but it was not a fantasy I'd ever had.

I love Jon Snow's character.

They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'

To be able to say, 'I'm going to be Snow White' - it's crazy. It's an honor.

So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as you go. Want to add a dragon? Add a dragon! Want some magic? Throw it in. But the thing is, regardless of whether you're dealing with realism or fantasy, every world has rules. Make sure to establish a natural order.

'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read about this magical world that's been living in my dreams for so many years.

What if?" Fick asked. "What if grasshoppers had machine guns? Birds would be fucked!

Kjærligheten er en lidenskap som blander et ganske lite kvantum solid substans sammen med et langt større kvantum forfengelighet og feberfantasier.

Unreality was swirling all around her like the delirious miasmas

God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles!