Quotes About Fantasy

It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.

I think George R. R. Martin made fantasy grow up. He brought a level of reality into the storytelling where you realize the good guys don't always win and anyone can die, because that's how life works. Bringing that level of reality into the story I think forced the genre to mature in a lot of ways that it hadn't prior.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

Jenny McCarthy was the one I thought could turn me straight. I thought that if I could just get my shot with her, it could happen.

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.

Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!

Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.

I never got on the 'Stranger Things' train. Everybody else did, but for me, I'm the wrong audience because I don't like sci-fi/fantasy.

But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.

Sweet dreams." Elena gave her a blank look. "That seems very unlikely.

RC blinked a couple more times and admired the freckles on either side of [Honey's] nose. He would have enjoyed connecting them dot-to-dot with a felt-tip pen. In his fantasy, he would discover the meaning of life spread across her cheekbones.

No lawyers in Nekropolis. They're too scary even for this city.

Talaith sat upon an airborne throne of black marble held aloft by a pair of giant flapping raven's wings growing from the throne's back. Despite myself, I was impressed. Much classier than a broom or carpet.

Let's get out of here before–" A gigantic reptilian head rose up before us, fiery green water trickling down its black-scaled hide.

a democratic nation can limp along even when its chief of state is widely understood to be a lazy, bumbling simpleton. Fallible leadership is the only kind of leadership any nation ever has. Since totalitarians cannot afford to admit this, their domains start and end in fantasy

1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.

Porque un sueño es algo con lo que fantaseas y que probablemente nunca llegará a ocurrir. Una meta es algo que planificas, en lo que trabajas y que alcanzas.

1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows. The question is then, How can one achieve the millionaire lifestyle of complete freedom without first having $1,000,000?

You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

Because of our ability to imagine an enjoyment that the symbolic order prohibits, the imaginary offers us a separate register of experience, distinct from the symbolic order.