Quotes About Fantasy

Brooding only looks good in the movies.

En el mundo hay algo peor que el Terror... Hay sueños que se vuelven realidad.

If I've learned anything from two decades of fantastique writing it's that the more extraordinary the subject matter the more specific the details need to be.

The mere fact of Vegas, its necessity, was an indictment of our normal lives. If we needed this place--to transform into a high roller or a sexy swinger, to be someone else, a winner for once--then certainly the world beyond the desert was a small and mealy place indeed.

Where the goblin world and its assaults were banished and there was nothing but possibility

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

I sleep among ravishing illusions and wake to their burden.

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

You're going to go on dreaming and imagining and making up stories about me as you walk along the street, and pretending that we're riding in a forest, or landing on an island —' 'No. I shall think of you ordering dinner, paying bills, doing the accounts, showing old ladies the relics —

She lives in dreams, alone.

Desejei dilatar a noite para a encher de sonhos.

Mrs. Hilbery would have been perfectly well able to sustain herself if the world had been what the world is not. She was beautifully adapted for life in another planet.

but how speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depths of the sea instead?

And yet I am happy. Yes, happy. I swear. I swear that I am happy...What does it matter that I am a bit cheap, a bit foul, and that no one appreciates all the remarkable things about me—my fantasy, my erudition, my literary gift…I am happy that I can gaze at myself, for any man is absorbing—yes, really absorbing! ... I am happy—yes, happy!

From my point of view, any outstanding work of art is a fantasy insofar as it reflects the unique world of a unique individual. Art is not just simple arithmetic, it's a delicate calculus. Keep in mind the passion of the scientist and the precision of the artist.

Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

Es espantoso cuando la vida real de pronto resulta ser un sueño, pero ¡cuánto más espantoso cuando lo que uno ha creído que era un sueño —fluido e irresponsable— de pronto empieza a cuajarse como realidad!

and he, Hugh Person....began to undress her in the motels of his mind

Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again.

Palm trees are all right only in mirages.