Quotes About Creativity

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

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.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

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

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.

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

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.

Humans need fantasy in order to be human.

I don't know anybody who doesn't have a fantasy. Everybody must have a fantasy.

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.