Quotes About Perception

I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

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

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

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.

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

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

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

I think glamour is a female thing. I don't think that's a male fantasy. I think glamour's a female fantasy.

I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

In the space between wake and sleep, where the real world juxtaposes with the imagination, that's where I live.

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

The world of fantasy can always blindfold. Had I know is a gateway to the realities of life

If you believe it, is it real, or is it real because you believe it?

Fantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens.

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.

There is more magic in our own world than in any world of fantasy.