Quotes About Fantasy

No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.

Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.

I hope there are other animals my age out there. I always wanted to kill a baby goat!

a goal or objective that is not in writing is merely a wish or a fantasy. It has no energy behind it.

It is a pity that Earth has lost its dragons, for they added immeasurably to the strangeness of our world. This, it seemed to me, was a good thing.

For what kind of world is it that has no unicorns?

The imagination is always the best torturer.

Kindly consider the question: what would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it? Shadows are cast by objects and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. Trees and living beings also have shadows. Do you want to skin the whole earth, tearing all the trees and living things off it, because of your fantasy of enjoying bare light? You're a fool.

maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.

Cada vez que un hombre me dice que es un romántico, me dan ganas de escupirle. Únicamente significa que tiene una idea romántica de ti, pero en cuanto te muestras tal y como eres y dejas de encajar en su fantasía, se desinfla. Los hombres románticos son un peligro. Cuanto más lejos, mejor.

Merry whistled. "This parallel universe of yours, Andrew, I love it.

Meanwhile try not to think about you and me in the shower together, all slick and soapy. Not that I'd ever let that happen, but just try not to think about it.

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for.

How can you tell when someone is only imagining?

in a dream one must be allowed the liberty of imagining occasionally that which never existed in the world of sense perception.

All her life, dreams had been her friends. Her dreams were unusually detailed, well-structured, colorful.

You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream, you manufacture illusions!

I don't want realism, I want magic! Yes, yes, magic!

I don't want realism

We live in condensations of our imagination

Arian's ebony hair was spread in a shimmering fan around her shoulders, reminding Tristan absurdly of Snow White in her glass coffin. Even in death, hadn't the deceptive blush of life stained Snow White's pallid cheeks? Hadn't her rosebud lips parted as if to welcome a kiss from a prince who might never come? Hadn't the creamy swell of her breasts tantalized every hopelessly naive kid in the theater into daring to believe her chest would rise just one more time?

Fantasy writing must be grounded in both truth and life experience if it is to work. It can be as inventive and creative as the writer can make it, a whirlwind of images and plot twists, but it cannot be built on a foundation of air. The world must be identifiable with our own, must offer us a frame of reference we can recognize." "Fantasy stories work because the writer has interwoven bits and pieces of reality with imagination to form a personal vision.

THE MEASURE OF THE MAGIC. Read on for an excerpt from THE MEASURE OF THE MAGIC The conclusion to Legends of Shannara