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Quotes About Fantasy

A Uncorn isn't for page twenty-seven, it's for eternity.
~ Jasper Fforde
Sometimes living in the BookWorld is like living in Legoland.
~ Jasper Fforde
No one's going to be killing any Dragons,' said the Princess. 'It is my order.' 'I'm a knight,' he said simply, 'killing Dragons is what I do.' 'And burning idiots like you to powdered charcoal,' said Colin, 'is what we do.
~ Jasper Fforde
O brave new world, that has such stories in't!
~ Jasper Fforde
Quark, said the Quarkbeast.
~ Jasper Fforde
Es curioso cómo el pensamiento incurre en lo inverosímil, cómo se lo permite momentáneamente, cómo fantasea o se hace supersticioso para descansar un rato o encontrar alivio, cómo es capaz de negar los hechos y hacer que retroceda el tiempo, aunque sea un instante. Cómo se parece al sueño.
~ Javier Marías
Being present at the creation of a full-blown conspiracy theory. It's like watching a galaxy being born. Lots of random, unconnected bits and pieces of matter whiz past each other, exert a little gravitational pull and bingo, they start forming an organized system. The next thing you know you have a complete, wheels-within-wheels fantasy involving the CIA, Area 51, cosmic energy and a dead guy.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it.
~ Jean Cocteau
C: What do you get when a giant sneezes? Out of the way. - Marigold
~ Jean Ferris
She was a pixie, a fairy, full of imagination and in another world.
~ Unknown
Only the magic and the dream are true - all the rest's a lie. Let it go. Here is the secret. Here.
~ Jean Rhys
I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. That is why we invent stories, I said. And what if we are the story we invent? said Shelley.
~ Jeanette Winterson
When you are a solitary kid you find an imaginary friend.
~ Jeanette Winterson
A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?
~ Jeanette Winterson
Snow is covering us. Close your eyes and sleep. Close your eyes and dream. This is one story. There will be another.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Cuando eres un niño solitario siempre encuentras un amigo imaginario.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't.
~ Jeanette Winterson
She was night-time and words were the dream.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I am in love with her; not a fantasy or a myth or a creature of my own making. Her. A person who is not me. I invented Bonaparte as much as he invented himself. My passion for her, even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Es singular que nunca se remonte más agradablemente mi imaginación como cuando me hallo en un estado menos agradable; y, al contrario, cuando todo ríe en derredor mío, entonces es menos risueña mi fantasía. Mi mala cabeza no puede sujetarse a la realidad. No puede embellecer, necesita crear.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.
~ Michele Bachmann
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!
~ Terri Windling