Quotes About Fantasy

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens.

I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

The marvelous thing about 'Doctor Who' is that it tells stories that no one else can tell.

It's exhilarating to read something that tells you that people saw something and felt something that you thought was so discreet. When they relate you to some of their own fantasies of who or how some actresses should be in movies. That's really kind of sweet!

'Adventure Time' tells stories where anything can happen, but what happens is. It stars Finn, a boy who fights evil, and Jake, a dog with stretchy powers. Both of them can talk.

Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

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And maybe 'if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas

They take little interest in waking life, choosing to lie most of the time in death-like sleep." "Then

A fantastic idea had birth in his mind and grew, that beneath the sheet, the mere lifeless body had become a strange, monstrous thing, a hideous, conscious being, that watched him with eyes which burned through the fabric of the cloth.

Cimmeria, land of Darkness and deep Night.

Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it used for blood. It brushed her cheek with its wings, then flew off -- dancing in the hot air.

Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.

You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike

We don't love each other; we love the idea we have of each other.

Wisps of her dreams still clung about her . . .