Quotes About Fantasy

An ocean without monsters would be like sleep without dreams.

she is admired from afar. These admirers court her in secret, in the safety of their dreams.

How much happier we should be,' she thought to herself sadly, 'if we never grew up!

But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind.

One of our first amusements as children (if we have any imagination at all) is to get out of our own characters, and to try the characters of other personages as a change—to be fairies, to be queens, to be anything, in short, but what we really are.

I know that this world is a world of Imagination and Vision.

he considered further, the very ability to fantasise was a fundamental feature

a crown for her head with castles upon it, skyscrapers filled with nut-chocolates

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Go out among them and tell them that their nostalgia for places they have never been is sex

Know what's worse than imaginary, Leon? What? Half-imaginary.

Here at last was the imagined but never fully realized place leaping into real life.

I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginative world and the real world. It is perfectly true to say that I have at some times in my life found that the imaginative world had pushed the real world right out of the way, and was literally more real.

You never loved me, nobody never loved me. I wanted to be loved, I wanted somebody to be kind to me - I wanted- She wanted tenderness. So did I; but not from her. She was no part of high fantasy and worship and hopeless jealousy. She was the accessible thing.

Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS? She turned toward the door then. You have no chance of winning my heart.

Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam.

Back, Witch— I'm not a witch, I'm your wife—

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there's nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

New Crobuzon was a city unconvinced by gravity.

There's something intrinsically radical about the fantastic aesthetic - starting from the premise that the impossible is true, attempting to undermine expectations.

In the streets of Un Lun Dun: a group of a girl, a half ghost, a talking book, a piece of rubbish, and two living words was unusual but not very.

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.