“People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.” PeopleMeanFantasyWrittenMagicUniversityRealismMagic Realism Author:Terry Pratchett
“I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend the genre instead of saying, 'Horror is a bit passe so this is Dark Fantasy,' and that' s playing someone else's game. So that's why I say I'm a fantasy writer and to hell with 'It doesn't read like what I think of as a fantasy'. In that case what you think of as a fantasy is not a fantasy. Or there is more to it than you think.” ThinkingGamesWishBitsDarkFictionCasesFantasyHellHorrorScience FictionComicGenreDark FantasyPlaying Someone Author:Terry Pratchett
“It's a weird kind of disconnect that this whole story [he Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane] grew around a real doll of mine, and here he is, with his "Edward" expression on his face. It's kind of reality bumping into fantasy.” KindRealWholeStoriesRealityFacesFantasyJourneyMinesExpressionGrewMiraculousDollsEdward TulaneMiraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane Author:Kate DiCamillo
“The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D game products and lots of fiction. It is vast, historically and geographically and so contains just about anything you might imagine, at one place or time or another. Created by Ed Greenwood. And, for the record, Ed Greenwood is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.” MightEarthGuyGamesSidesFictionFantasyRecordsImagineMiddleProductsMetsForgottenSettingSettingsRealmsIntricateMiddle Earth Author:Paul S. Kemp
“Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.” MoralFantasyExplorationSci FiVigorous Author:Paul S. Kemp
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.” PhilosophySpiritualReligionMusicFantasyHeardSweetMusic IsMelodyMusic LoveUnheardArt And MusicOdesSweet MusicHearing MusicSpiritual Music Author:John Keats
“I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very much.” InterestFantasyCarEndlessDystopianSuperheroExploding Author:Nicholas Meyer
“For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.” KnowsTryingKindRealTodayFilmLyingActorsCasesFantasyConditionsCrimeProduceHeroDirectorsHappeningsCriminalsKingdomsDiscussionRelatedConspiracyCollaboratorsGeneral Public Author:Ai Weiwei
“The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.” KindFantasyUniquePearlsLuxurious Author:Ai Weiwei
“What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary or other kinds of fiction do. The name of the game in F/SF/HF is creating fictional worlds and then telling particular stories set in those worlds. If you're doing it right, then the reader, coming to the end of the story, will say, "Hey, wait a minute, there are so many other stories that could be told in this universe!" And that's how we get the sprawling, coherent fictional universes that fandom is all about.” IfsWorldKindDifferentEndsStoriesUniverseGamesNamesWaitingFictionFantasyMinutesParticularReaderCreatingScience FictionHistoricalHeyHistorical FictionFandomsFictional Worlds Author:Neal Stephenson
“It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.” InterestingFantasyUtopia Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“In terms of the fantasy wedding thing, I can kind of cross off the island beach thing. Maybe at sunset or something.” KindI CanTermFantasyCrossesBeachIslandsSunset Author:Mandy Moore
“Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.” WorldMotherFantasyDaughterAdolescenceBest Mother Author:Carrie Fisher
“No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.” ThinkingFantasy Author:George Michael
“I suppose romantically there are fantasies that can still be realized. But not professionally.” StillsFantasy Author:George Michael
“What are the policy implications of the government and this fantasy Islam, what are the policy implications of a United States government that believes Islam is as anti-terror as you and I are? Well, it means that Islamic doctrine can never be cited as the cause of terrorism, as a matter of policy. And it never is. It never is.” BelieveWellsMeanMatterStatesGovernmentCausesUnitedUnited StatesFantasyPolicyIslamTerrorTerrorismDoctrineIslamicImplicationsState GovernmentUnited States Government Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our lives all the time.” WaySexFantasyOur LivesScene Author:Lena Dunham
“Initially it was a fascination for Tolkienesque Fantasy, and role-playing games, with time I realized that it was the mythological elements that fascinated me the most, so I moved more and more in that direction.” GamesRolesFantasyElementsMovedI RealizedFascinatedFascinationPlaying GamesRole Playing Author:Varg Vikernes
“When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.” ThinkingReadingInterestLevelsFantasyPerformancesActivePlanningTransformed Author:George Carlin
“I'm not reading any kind of fantasy [for young adults] or Hunger Games or anything like that. It's more just like geeks with crushes. It's very sweet, and I'm enjoying how honest they are, and I'm enjoying the humanity in them.” KindYoungHumanityReadingGamesEnjoyFantasyHonestSweetAdultsHungerYoung AdultCrushGeekVery Sweet Author:Morgan Parker
“As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.” ChildrenBookWholeFantasySavedWhole Life Author:Nicole Kidman
“From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought that seemed like an iffy way to try to make a living. So I tried journalism while in college, and really liked it. But even in journalism, I've always pursued ways to be somewhat literary, whether writing a column or writing books.” WayWritingTryingHeartBookFantasyCollegeJournalismNovelistsGradesPursuedColumnsWriting A BookNinth Grade Author:Kevin Maney
“People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day.” PeopleWantDreamFantasyKingsMiserableQueensMiserable Life Author:Robin Leach
“What I feel that "Alice in Wonderland" did for me and other people in exploring your dream state, and using fantasy in your dream state to deal with real issues and problems in your life. People like to separate those things but the fact is that they are things that are intertwined.” PeopleFeelsRealStatesFactsProblemDreamDealsFantasyIssuesYour DreamsExploringWonderlandIntertwined Author:Tim Burton
“I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be literature. The way it used to be, before the Realists and the bloody Modernists took over.” ThinkingWayUsedLiteratureFictionFantasyHappeningsScience FictionGhostUsed To BeBloodyRealistTroll Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Society makes suicide so romantic. I mean, you watch these TV movies about teen suicide and you want to jump in front of a bus. Because your biggest fantasy is your own funeral. No one will admit to it, but it's true.” WantMeanWatchesFantasyFrontsTvsSuicideBusFuneral Author:Winona Ryder
“I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village in the south of France was very different than the fantasy I had of living in France. Over the years I spent there, that fantasy was worn away and I found a more realistic version of France than the one I began with. I wouldn't say the spell ever goes away, but transforms. Now that I understand French culture more intimately, and speak fluent French, I have a different, more solid, relationship to the country.” YearsDifferentCountryRealityCultureCoursesFoundSpeakBitsFantasyMissingNew YorkSouthVersionsFranceVillageRealisticSpellsWornFluentSmall VillagesFrench Culture Author:Danielle Trussoni
“For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsBelieveRealityWalksFictionFantasyAliveMysteryStreetsWindowScience FictionScaredMythologyVersionsBlockGenreTwilightClosestLampsMistSilhouettes Author:Brit Marling
“I think it would be nice to have a guilt free possibility to act out all kinds of sexual fantasies... So that I think is appealing. And today the only thing that exists like that is called a whorehouse... Where you still feel like you're exploiting so I don't want to do that.” ThinkingWantFeelsKindStillsWould BeTodayFantasyNicePossibilityLike YouGuiltAll KindsBeing NiceGuilt Free Author:Jason Silva
“The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.” WayHumansIdeasReligiousHuman BeingsFantasyVariousPosts Author:Ross Douthat
“I think for the women of today, because we work and go around a lot, Armani is ideal - simple and elegant at the same time. It's not eccentric, and everything he does is very subtle. For the evening, I like Gianfranco Ferre. There's a lot of fantasy and creativity in his clothes.” ThinkingDoeTodaySimpleCreativityFantasyClothesIdealsEveningSubtleElegantEccentricArmani Author:Sophia Loren
“I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.” ThinkingEnergyFantasyChinaConsideringCoalSuppliesPredicamentsKyoto Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I believe we are deluded about alternative energy. The key is, whatever we do, we're going to have to do on a very modest scale. It's all about scale. We're not going to build giant wind farms with Godzilla-sized turbines all over the place. That's a fantasy.” BelieveEnergyI BelieveFantasyWindKeysScalesAlternativesGiantsFarmsModestDeludedGodzillaAlternative EnergyTurbinesWind Farms Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human evolution. Our basic problems with maintaining the electric grid argue against that fantasy.” MindBelieveHumansProblemFantasyEffectsProduceEvolutionMachinesArguingHuman MindRaysElectricMaintainingSingularityGridsHuman EvolutionSynthetic Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I believe our techno-zealotry will be moderated by sheer circumstance. We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what our fantasies propose.” BelieveRealityI BelieveFantasyCircumstancesSheerProposeTechnoZealotry Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I'm a fantasy guy. So I brought the fantasy element to the Riddick, David Twohy brought the sci-fi, and it came together.You see that in every aspect of the film.” TogetherFilmGuyFantasyElementsAspectSci Fi Author:Vin Diesel
“I've got a solid grounding in history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, etc etc. That means I actually have a good idea about how societies change and evolve. I know how a lot of them have actually functioned through the years. I can put together a culture that's cool and different, while still being logically consistent, so that it feels real. So many fantasy worlds are either implausible, cookie-cutter, or both. Mine aren't.” KnowsWorldFeelsYearsMeanStillsI CanIdeasDifferentRealPhilosophyTogetherCultureFantasyKnow HowMinesEvolveConsistentEtcGood IdeasSociologyCookiesAnthropologyThrough The YearsGroundingFantasy WorldsCuttersCookie Cutters Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world to my reader. I'm not writing a history text on the Four Corners. I'm telling a story that's set there. The setting belongs in the background for the most part, and it's easy for fantasy authors to forget that. That's one of the unfortunate parts of Tolkien's legacy, in my opinion. Read the first hundred pages of the Fellowship of the Ring and you start to get pissed, "Shut up about the Shire's museums! Isn't the world supposed to be in peril or something?"” WorldNeedsFeelsWritingFirstsHelpingStoriesJobsEasyForgetOpinionFantasyFourReaderPagesHundredCornersRingsBackgroundsSettingSettingsSupposed To BeLegacyHelp MeMuseumsUnfortunateShut UpGood JobPerilFellowshipFellowship Of The RingShire Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got the best of both British and American television and books, science fiction and fantasy, and so on. So I'm familiar with a lot of, for example, American books and television that a British author of my generation might not be.” ThinkingKindBookMightCultureFictionFantasyGenerationsExampleTelevisionScience FictionBritishFamiliarCombinationAustraliaAmerican CultureMy GenerationAmerican TelevisionScience Fiction And Fantasy Author:Garth Nix
“I came to fantasy fairly late. For some ten years, I had been happily writing fiction and non-fiction for adults. But I always loved fantasy, whether for adults or young people; and at that particular point in my life, I wanted to try it, to understand it, as part of the process of learning to be a writer. The results were beyond anything I could have foreseen. As I've said often and elsewhere, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life.” PeopleWritingTryingYearsSaidWantedYoungProcessResultsFictionFantasyCreativeParticularTenLateAdultsElsewhereLiberatingNon FictionWriting FictionForeseen Author:Lloyd Alexander
“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.” PeopleWritingDoneFeelingsAbleYoungMy OwnAttitudeFantasyAdultsDeepest Feelings Author:Lloyd Alexander
“Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.” ThinkingWorldRealSelfDreamMovingLevelsFantasyForeverUniqueProfoundAncientMythologyStorytellingReal WorldReal SelfAlways And Forever Author:Lloyd Alexander
“Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales.” PeopleBelieveYoungI BelieveImaginationFantasyTalesFairyFairy TaleParaphrase Author:Lloyd Alexander
“As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what's going on in Calvin's head.” WritingRealityFantasyGreaterJokesDrawingComplexityHobbes Author:Bill Watterson
“We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy.” MindFantasyAllowing Author:Jean Houston
“I've discovered that, in order for life to go on, you have to believe in necessary fantasies such as what you think is going to happen next week will actually happen, the people who are alive right now will be alive next week.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHappensOrderNextFantasyAliveWeekGoes OnRight NowNext Week Author:Decca Aitkenhead
“I had a lot of fantasies about being an architect when I was young, and I think I still do. On a visceral level, I'm very intellectually and emotionally attracted to acknowledging how space functions in our lives, both in terms of pleasure and in terms of control, and in terms of all those factors that form a life. I'm also very anxious and maybe repulsed by how superficial that whole dialogue can become.” ThinkingStillsWholeFormYoungTermSpacePleasureLevelsFantasyOur LivesFunctionDialogueFactorsAnxiousArchitectSuperficialVisceral Author:Tom Burr
“I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more, I guess. It involves separating life, breaking off this chunk that's devoted to making something. There's a lot of pleasure in that, but there can also be a lot of struggle. There's always this fantasy that you could just live life and not have to think about it.” ThinkingWritingKindMadePleasureFantasyStrugglePaintingPhotographDrawingAll KindsLive LifeDevotedChunksJust LiveSeparatingJust Living Life Author:Moyra Davey