Quotes About Creativity

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

Dreams that are realistic, often come out of fantasies.

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

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.

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.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

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.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people