Quotes About Fantasy

I was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures.

When I was little, I used to spend a lot of time making up stories when I was put to bed.

I was always really creative and making up stuff.

I am going to marry Fantasia. She just doesn't know it yet.

Tolkien imagined The Lord of the Rings as a book very much like The Hobbit: aimed at a young audience, built around humor and pranks, and modeled on the structure of a folktale or fairy story. He even called it "the Hobbit sequel" or "the new Hobbit." He

Wizard Howl, said Wizard Suliman. I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman.

It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted Sophie and decided to accost her as well, Sophie shrank into a shop doorway and tried to hide. The young man looked at her in surprise. It's all right, you little gray mouse, he said laughing rather pityingly. I only want to buy you a drink. Don't look so scared.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

But whoever heard of enchanted bacon anyway?

I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.

All I did was ask you for a role-playing game. You never warned me I'd be pitched into it for real! And I asked you for hobbits on a grail quest, and not one hobbit have I seen!

Sophie knew Howl could sound unhappy in heaven if it suited him.

In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist

In the study, The Book of Palimpsest was, for some reason, now open at A Spell to Find Yourself a Handsome Prince. Charmain shook her head and closed the book. Who needs a prince? she said.

It seems that Fate has decreed that I live through my entire daydream in reality!

In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three.

And seeing clearly that his princesses would not be able to walk on air as we djinns do, he first ordered me to steal a certain moving castle belonging to a wizard in this land of Ingary in which to house his brides, and then he ordered me to commence stealing princesses.

Sophie began to feel that Wizard Howl and the Witch of the Waste should get together.

Really, Wizard Derk, this place is like a pigsty! she said. Derk settled more comfortably among the pigs. It is a pigsty, he said.

I asked you for Hobbits on a grail quest, and not one Hobbit have I seen!

seen without clothes on. Their skins were greenish

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

So You Want To Be A Wizard?

It was like living entirely inside a book.