Quotes About Fantasy

I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories.

It's true that I am surrounded by beautiful women in the movies. But the romance is only on screen.

I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same people each evening. Everyone would be singing and dancing and after a while I came to know the people; though, of course, they never really existed.

I always wanted to grow up in a house full of books, English books, and I wanted the sort of fireplaces that worked, overstuffed chairs, that whole kind of fantasy of a bookish New England life. So the library gave me that; for the hours that I was there, I was surrounded by that atmosphere that I craved in my life.

Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.

When I first started writing in the beginning, it was very much surrounding the idea of escape and of fantasy, then when I got a little bit older it very much became a way of looking inward.

Escapism is survival to me.

I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

Without its roots in reality, I don't think escapism can survive.

The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

Children don't have to suspend disbelief like adults do... their brains can take in whatever crazy magical ideas you throw at them.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.

Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel.

Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.

I always loved pretending I was a fish or a mermaid while swimming in my grandparents' pool.

When I was a kid I'd swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I've had the opportunity to get paid for it.

I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.

When I was in Switzerland, I still had the fantasy I could have saved my parents and family if I'd stayed in Germany. All nonsense. If they had not made the sacrifice to send their only child to Switzerland, I wouldn't be alive.

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.

What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

My son loves swords and shields and dragons.