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Quotes About Fantasy

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
~ Illeana Douglas
I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.
~ Margaret Stohl
It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.
~ Travis Beacham
Camelot, located nowhere in particular, can be anywhere.
~ Norris J. Lacy
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
~ Northrop Frye
How can you see something that isn't there? yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,he said. For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones. Then where is Reality? barked Tock. Right here,cried Alec, waving his arms.
~ Norton Juster
The Castle in the Air is far from here, and the one stairway which leads to it is guarded by fierce and black-hearted demons.
~ Norton Juster
Sorprendido por el nuevo instrumento e irritado por sus poderes de reproducción inmediata, el poeta olvidaba que detrás de la lente fotográfica hay un hombre: una sensibilidad y una fantasía. Un punto de vista.
~ Octavio Paz
For what, after all, is the difference between a memory and a fantasy? Are not both a succession of imprecisely rendered images further obscured by imprecisely chosen words and animated only by the wistful effort of one's imagination? And who is to say that a vividly imagined moment of happiness is not, in the end, more enriching to the spirit than a hazy semi-recollection of some pallid pastime?
~ Olga Grushin
The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
~ Oprah Winfrey
All the happiness and beauty that life had to offer only revealed themselves when his mind drifted off into fantasies of a world far removed from his own.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Bazan Füsun'un hayallere dald???n? yüzünden anlar, onun hayal ettiÄŸi ülkeye gitmek ister, ama kendimi, hayat?m?, a??rl???m?, masada oturuÅŸumu çok umutsuz bulurdum.
~ Orhan Pamuk
El propietario de una tienda, al que le gustaba hablar de manera más lacónica, le explicó que el cliente no compra en realidad una prenda de vestir, sino una fantasía. Que lo que de veras quería comprar era el sueño de poder ser como los otros que vestían aquella ropa.
~ Orhan Pamul
Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.
~ Orson Scott Card
You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.
~ Orson Scott Card
Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him.
~ Orson Scott Card
THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD Experience Card's full versatility, from science fiction to fantasy, from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction.
~ Orson Scott Card
Danny North grew up surrounded by fairies, ghosts, talking animals, living stones, walking trees, and gods who called up wind and brought down rain, made fire from air and drew iron out of the depths of the earth as easily as ordinary people might draw up water from a well.
~ Orson Scott Card
Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that absolutely are not like the observable world around them.
~ Orson Scott Card
If you have people do some magic, impossible thing by stroking a talisman or praying to a tree, it's fantasy; if they do the same thing by pressing a button or climbing inside a machine, it's science fiction.
~ Orson Scott Card
you'll dream, too.>
~ Orson Scott Card
Speculative fiction includes all stories that take place in a setting contrary to known reality.
~ Orson Scott Card
Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed.>
~ Orson Scott Card
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
~ Oscar Wilde