Quotes About Fantasy

By the time she wrote The Sovereignty of Good in 1970 her criticism had become stringent: 'we are not isolated free choosers, monarchs of all we survey, but benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform by fantasy'.

You have sometimes thought of going back? Yes, I have, but only in a fantasy way.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

We are not isolated free choosers, monarchs of all we survey, but benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform by fantasy.

But now he was dreaming, he was wildly imagining things.

Blaise has always lived in a dream world. We all live in dream worlds, said Monty.

Si utilizara el ingenio que los buenos espíritus me dieron, entonces diría que esta dama no puede existir, pues ¿qué hombre en su sano juicio llamaría al sueño realidad? Sin embargo yo preferiría no ser cuerdo y prestar crédito a mis ojos hechizados

I tell you I know the type of people that become Medievalists. They're soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed.

La mujer amada nunca existió, la había construido con sueños.

Una cortina de tinieblas oculta el mundo fantástico donde antes me paseaba libremente.

Qué enciende la pasión? La propia fantasía, supongo. ¿Qué la apaga? La rutina, si uno se descuida, y la pobreza.

i fantasmi dell'immaginazione si trasformano in personaggi definiti, unici, con la loro voce, disposti a raccontarmi le loro vite se concedo loro tempo a sufficienza. Sono così sicura della loro presenza da stupirmi che nessun altro riesca a percepirli

El problema con la ficción es que debe ser creíble, en cambio la realidad rara vez lo es.

Non c'è niente di più pericoloso del demone della fantasia acquattato nell'animo femminile.

Había inventado un amante perfecto y nutría esa quimera con invencible porfía. Su imaginación compensaba los ingratos abrazos con su amante, que la dejaban perdida en el limbo oscuro del deseo insatisfecho.

Qué enciende la pasión? La propia fantasía, supongo, ¿Qué la paga? La rutina, si uno se descuida, la pobreza. (De biografía Vida y espíritus)

New Zealand is weird. I mean, it does not seem of this earth, not to me. It really is like something made up.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

I love all that stuff like 'Tales From The Crypt,' 'Twlight Zone,' and 'Amazing Stories.'

It's not easy for me as a writer to suspend my disbelief in a fantastical zone. I can do it. But it's more natural for me to write stories that are comic. Or hopefully comic.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

A sleeping fox counts hens in his dreams.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle.

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.