Quotes About Fantasy

Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

Never laugh at live dragons.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

You know you've been playing too much Nethack when you refer to coffee as a potion of sleep resistance.

Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.

My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves.

I shouldn't have said that. We should keep reality as far away as possible.

When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.

You're always with me. But that must also be some version of you that i made up inside my head

I coped, in the grand tradition of children everywhere, by retreating into my imagination.

Big Rock Candy Mountain,

Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.

Science fiction and fantasy are very closely related genres, and a lot of people say that the genres are so close that there's actually no meaningful distinction to be made between the two. But I think that there does exist an useful distinction to be made between magic and science. One way to look at it is in terms of whether a given phenomenon can be mass-produced.

The idea of love with no strings attached is as much a fantasy as what Binary Desire is selling. Loving someone means making sacrifices for them.

Where, then, does your vision of the world reside? What part of your art is drawn from history? What part is prophecy? What part is grounded in fact? What part takes wing in fantasy? These are useful questions. Do you really want to leave it to outsiders and non-artists to make up your answers for you? Many

Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, and then marooning them there. No one else conjures the phantasmagoric and shifting morality of dreams - that fascinating and frightening aspect of having something that seems to represent good become evil - in the way this master Japanese animator does.

As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.

I wanted to create characters who could do fantastic things but who weren't exactly superheros - characters who exist on sort of a spectrum from super-ability to disability.

I love incredibly imaginative, speculative sci-fi.

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.

Bewitched' weaves a spell of fantasy that televiewers of any age can lose themselves in.

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

I was into Batman. I was into Spider-Man.