Quotes About Imagination

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff. I think it's so cool.

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

I've always loved fantasy. I think it's a great way to look at issues that we have in our own lives with a little bit of the pressure off, you know.