Quotes About Fantasy

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

We all have our own party fantasy that we've either lived or wanted to live in New Orleans.

Not everyone is in love and nor does everyone have the courage for love. In our country, most people simply fantasise about being in love. I don't know about other countries but in India, to love is to battle with innumerable social and religious barriers.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy books - I think a lot of fantasy book readers and a lot of readers and writers in general have that experience of isolation.

I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away from this world, which I needed.

Fantasy is expensive. It's an expensive endeavor. I have to admit, I didn't write with adaptation in mind. So the books simply become more outlandish as they go on, and they're full of a lot of locations and elaborate set pieces.

I was very much a part of the civil rights era, so, of course, my fantasy was to marry some outstanding black gentleman, a leader - someone like Martin Luther King who was doing something for black people.

I've always toyed around with creating over-the-top lady characters in my head.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot.

If I learned one thing that day, it was that Peter Bartholomew, Arnulf, even Saint John the Divine had all been wrong. The world did not have to end with ten-horned beasts and dragons, angels and fantastical monsters. The prophets who foretold those things had succumbed to the extravagance of their imaginations, and it had played them false. Nothing on earth could be so terrible as men.

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

Add in the fantasy mindset. Don't forget "Insh'allah", (which is like "mañana," but without the sense of urgency) which makes it somewhat impious to train really well since it is all the will of God anyway. Add in a set of social values that despise and loathe doing physical labor.

Sometimes I think the cover of a book as a door to another world...but other times I think of it as an escape hatch from this one. I guess it's the same thing.

The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.

Only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

Dragons, for instance, have the right of safe conduct anywhere in Faërie. A reader may not like to read stories about dragons, she may be morally offended or aesthetically uninterested or simply sick of the subject; but at any rate she will not complain that the author has cheated by bringing in a dragon, because dragons belong in fantasy.

It would have been nice to have had unicorns.

Once I had a dream that I was sleeping.

Yea, I have dreams. Usually at night when I'm asleep. Why?

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.

Everybody on Pasha's rug! Now — fly!

Everything was better when I was imagining it. Real things are complicated.