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Quotes About Fantasy

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.
~ Marilyn Monroe
So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.
~ Karen Russell
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
~ Stephen Malkmus
I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
~ Don McLean
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.
~ China Mieville
I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.
~ Erin Morgenstern
I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.
~ Benjamin Percy
We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.
~ Angelina Jolie
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
~ Umberto Eco
If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.
~ George Lucas
I've always thought a good whodunnit needed vampires, monks, and gods. P.G. Holyfield has created an engaging world that both fantasy and mystery fans will enjoy.
~ Mur Lafferty
Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind must be looking nervously over their shoulders!
~ Kevin J. Anderson
As a kid, I loved any fantasy.
~ Chris Hemsworth
Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
~ Elie Wiesel
I think glamour is a female thing. I don't think that's a male fantasy. I think glamour's a female fantasy.
~ Anna Biller
I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.
~ Geena Davis
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
~ Brian K. Vaughan
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.
~ Paul S. Kemp
We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.
~ Kieran Bew
When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
~ Laini Taylor
I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.
~ Sarah Dessen
As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.
~ Rob Lowe
She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.
~ Kathy Reichs