Quotes About Fantasy

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.

What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions.

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

I don't want realism…. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic!… I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

For a moment, Emma thought she might have stepped inside the pages of one of the Christmas books she read to Zach or that maybe she'd shrunk until

Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.

...and leave wishes to those foolish enough to make them.

It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism....

Cara: I just found a delightful account of a case against a wizard who once fancied getting drunk, marching down to the market on Stentor Street, hiking up his robes to random women and commanding them to kiss the serpent.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

J'aime la folle cruauté des chimères qu'on apprivoise.