Quotes About Fantasy

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

Honestly, Im living my fantasy. Its being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me

Fashion is about having a fantasy.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.