“Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.” FirstsStillsFantasyProductionsImpulseSheerAnimated Author:Walt Disney
“There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first time, and my place in it, independent of you, a whole vista of what may be. Even if it is not grand or inspiring, it is real and solid, unlike the fantasy I've built around you. I will do this. I will triumph over you.” IfsWorldFirstsMayI CanRealWholeFantasyComfortLetting GoFirst TimeBuiltIndependentClarityCuriousTriumphOver YouAgonyNumbnessVistas Author:Julie Berry
“It's funny because when I was growing up, I was really into science fiction and fantasy as a kid. And, when I first became a screenwriter, I ended up really just doing historical drama and non-fiction based stuff, like Band of Brothers and stuff that didn't get made, but was also non-fiction.” FirstsMadeKidsStuffFictionFantasyGrowing UpGrowingBrotherDramaBandScience FictionHistoricalNon FictionScreenwritersScience Fiction And Fantasy Author:John Orloff
“Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.” FirstsIdeasFantasyStrangeVisitors Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The time will come when a spacecraft carrying human beings will leave the earth and set out on a voyage to distant planets - to remote worlds. Today this may seem only an enticing fantasy, but such in fact is not the case. The launching of the first two Soviet Sputniks has already thrown a sturdy bridge from the earth into space, and the way to the stars is open” WorldWayFirstsHumansMayTwoFactsSeemsTodayEarthStarsHuman BeingsSpaceCasesFantasyPlanetsBridgesThrownSovietWorld TodayVoyagesLaunchingSturdyEnticingSpacecraftSputnik Author:Sergei Korolev
“He lived in a fantasy world. There was not a day when he didn't add some Mickey Mouse story about a club that wanted him. First of all, he came in and told me that Arsenal wanted to buy him, then the next week it was Manchester Utd, then the next week it was Real Madrid. He made it clear that he did not want to be at the club so, in the end, there was only one thing I could do - send him to Wigan.” WorldWantFirstsMadeRealEndsStoriesWantedNextFantasyClearOne ThingWeekFootballAddClubsMade ItManagersSoccerMiceChairmanManchesterArsenalNext WeekMickeyMadridFantasy WorldsReal MadridWigan Author:Joe Kinnear
“I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.” WorldShouldFirstsBelieveChildrenWholeI BelieveFantasyGenerationsShareTaughtNeededAdultsWhole WorldFantasy Worlds Author:Pearl S. Buck
“'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.” FirstsStoriesFallGirlFantasyBattleSightFalling In LoveObstaclesLove StoryLove At First SightUpside DownThat GirlFantasy Love Author:Jim Sturgess
“The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesnt obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.” IfsWorldWantFeelsFirstsHumansMeanRealLawFantasyThis WorldBuildingElementsAvailablePhysicsExplanationGravityBehaviourLaws Of PhysicsHuman Behaviour Author:Trudi Canavan
“The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life.” GivingFirstsRealAgeFantasyPossibilityMythSymbolsRemembranceFlavorSomething Real Author:Mark Rothko
“I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well... it really sucked. It was a plotless, clichéd mess.” FirstsWellsSchoolFantasyNovelHigh SchoolMessFantasy Novels Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels like such a fantasy.” FeelsFirstsPersonsBookSexFantasyPerspectiveSceneMalesFirst Person Author:Joe Meno
“I have this fantasy that the second movie would begin with a brief statement by all of the young actors who had played the children in the first movie, explaining how it had ruined their lives, so we would catch up with Emily Browning drinking heavily in the back of a burlesque bar, and maybe Liam Aiken would be living underneath a bridge, and then instead of the twins who played Sunny, we would just try to find the oldest woman in the world, and get an interview with her sitting in a trailer park.” WorldTryingFirstsChildrenWould BeYoungActorsFantasySittingDrinkingBarsStatementsBridgesInterviewsParksTwinsRuinedExplainingSunnyTrailersEmilyYoung ActorsLiamBurlesqueTrailer Park Author:Daniel Handler
“The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . .] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness.” FirstsMayMomentsStoriesUniverseGamesImaginationChallengesSpaceConsciousnessFantasyAchieveNegativeStructureMeaninglessVoidFormalCatastropheApocalypseFiniteTime And SpaceWrapsConstructive Author:J. G. Ballard
“I feel like I'm moving from a world where I was creating fantasies that weren't real inside - and very often feeling really dissatisfied - to now living in reality for the first time in my life since I was a kid, and learning to appreciate where I am now while actually sitting with that reality.” WorldFeelsFirstsRealFeelingsRealityKidsMovingFantasyCreatingSittingFirst TimeAppreciateDissatisfied Author:Damien Rice
“One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father.” FirstsKindStoriesDreamNightFatherFantasyRevengeShort StoryOne NightI Had A DreamGetting Revenge Author:Dale Peck
“She's the only woman I've ever had a sexual fantasy about. With me, looks come first, and she's everything a woman should be. She's blonde and beautiful, she's got the most incredible legs - et cetera, et cetera. And she's French as well. (on Brigitte Bardot)” ShouldFirstsWellsLooksBeautifulFantasyIncrediblesLegsBlondeEtcetera Author:Rod Stewart
“There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality” WantFirstsRealityEarthFantasyLive LifeImposter Author:Peter Tosh
“I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.” YearsFirstsWellsWarKidsSpeakLanguageEasyFictionFantasyGrewColdGrew UpHollywoodScience FictionClassicCold WarCommodityNerdyBest ScienceScience Fiction And Fantasy Author:Jon Spaihts
“Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning actually, the first person I had to convince was myself really because there's a self-censorship. When everybody says 'we don't do silent movies anymore,' you agree with everybody, and you say 'yeah, you're right.' It was a fantasy.” PeopleThinkingTryingFirstsPersonsSelfSometimesRememberFantasyAgreeYeahSilentConvinceCensorshipFirst PersonSilent MoviesSelf Censorship Author:Michel Hazanavicius
“The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.” FirstsHas BeensRealityThreeSexTermFantasySecurityBirthOffersDestructionThirdsCamerasNuclearInventionOur TimeNuclear WeaponsPillsBirth ControlWeaponryBirth Control Pills Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“It's the fantasy of first love. If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. And it is such a fantasy. It takes you away from doing the dishes and the laundry. I think of this as a contemporary romance rather than erotic fiction.” IfsThinkingYearsFirstsBookRomanceFictionFantasyNiceMarriedContemporaryDishesFirst LoveEroticLaundryLove Again Author:E. L. James
“When Peter Jackson did The Lord of the Rings trilogy with Fellowship of the Ring, not everyone had read Tolkien, and yet somehow with that scope and the spectacle of that fantasy, people were willing to give it a shot. And when they watched the first one, the characters drew them in and they started understanding the story. And then, all of a sudden, they were The Lord of the Rings fans, even if they never read Tolkien.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsCharacterStoriesUnderstandingLordFantasyFansWillingShotsRingsPeterScopeFellowshipFellowship Of The RingTrilogies Author:Duncan Jones
“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
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” ThinkingFirstsMatterLightScienceWaitingDarkDarknessFantasyCriminalsFasterBad AssOpen MindI Hate YouLight And DarknessCriminal MindDiscworldLight And DarkDarkness To LightReaperSpeed Of LightSmall GodsGood OmensBest Criminal MindsDarkness WithinLight DarkLight LifeDark LifeDarkness In Life Author:Terry Pratchett
“My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She was also the first person to encourage me to submit stories for publication. The idea of writing a fantasy based on myths never left me, and many years later, this would lead me to write Percy Jackson.” WritingYearsFirstsPersonsIdeasDoneStoriesLeftFantasyTeacherMastersMythMythologyGradesSubmitPublicationFirst PersonLeading MeThesisTrilogiesEighth GradeNorse Author:Rick Riordan
“Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.” FirstsRealEarthFilmClassFantasyAudienceImagineJourneyMiddleFlightCinemaBe YouImagine ThatTicketsFirst ClassMiddle EarthFantasy Films Author:Orlando Bloom
“I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.” YearsFirstsWholeGirlNamesFantasyHeardStageGoes OnGreenAlbumsCovered Author:Florence Welch
“Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.” WayShouldFirstsRealFantasyChildhoodFirst TimeFulfillmentAsiaSoutheast AsiaSouth Asia Author:Anthony Bourdain
“The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition. (Written in 1949, 22 years before the World Trade Center was completed.)” PeopleWorldYearsMindFirstsLongEndsTurnsSpeakSoundBlackCitiesMillionsFantasyWrittenNew YorkFirst TimeBiggerTradeFlightBridgesPlanesIslandsMortalityPassagesTowersChamberJetHeadlinesGeeseOverheadWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterWedges Author:E. B. White
“I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies.” FirstsBookChristianRomanceSidesDarkFantasyHeardCookiesDark Side Author:Donita K. Paul
“Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.” IfsWritingFirstsFantasyWide Author:Octavia Butler
“Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.” WorldWayFirstsHumansWellsSaidDifferentStoriesShowsPurposeTurnsWaitingRealizingAbilityRolesFantasyDoorsPerspectiveSkillsFirst TimeWindowEverydayBritishOpeningLiftsDifferent WaysMarvelousCommonplaceEscapingEscapismDifferent PerspectiveSlamming Doors Author:Terry Pratchett
“At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.” WorldFirstsKindWantedCoursesLanguageImaginationFantasyViolenceIllusionMadnessSuicideDenySavedAnalysisPoeticEnteringCravingMy ImaginationJuneAwakenedIgnominyAnimalism Author:Anais Nin
“When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.” WantFirstsStuffFantasySawsMetsObviousBeing TrueFunny Things Book:You Against Me Source: You Against Me
“Glamour's my thing. The glamour is what got me into this business in the first place. I lived in a fantasy world in order to survive. Now that I'm here, I plan to work it. That means playing the part--long, tight dresses, slick! Unless you rise to the occasion, Hollywood doesn't really exist.” WorldFirstsMeanLongOrderFantasyPlansHollywoodDressesOccasionsWorking ItGlamourSlickFantasy WorldsTight Dresses Author:Theresa Randle
“New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and set them on fire, turned them into flickering constellations of light.” FirstsLightNightCitiesFantasyFireNew YorkMiracleBridgesConstellations Author:Melissa Febos
“It was the first time I realized that absolute reality could be so much more fun than fantasy.” FirstsRealityTruthFunFantasyFirst TimeAbsolutesI Realized Author:Lindsay Lohan
“People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.” PeopleIfsWantFirstsDifferentMatterRealitySchoolRememberFilmFantasyToo MuchWallHigh SchoolShotsTiredCommunicateWorthyNakedContactDancerCracksWhat MattersSheetsWant SomethingRenaissance Author:David LaChapelle
“I used to live with two other guys. We used to cook two things. The first one was called 'cheese... thing' and that was where you get something and you melt cheese over it and the first one to guess what it is doesn't have to wash up. That's obviously quite Mediterranean; the other one was less complex. It was just called 'cheese fantasy.' That's where you come in, very drunk, at about five in the morning and find an apple and just pretend there's some cheese on it.” FirstsTwoUsedGuyMorningFantasyFiveComplexesDrunkCooksApplesTwo ThingsOver ItCheeseOther GuysWhere You Come Author:Dylan Moran
“I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.” WorldTryingYearsFirstsMayTwoLastsPurposeFantasyFirst TimeDecadesConventionsLast YearTry Again Author:Alan Dean Foster
“They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.” WorldFirstsRealRememberSportsFantasySeriesGuaranteesWorld SeriesFantasy Worlds Author:Sparky Anderson
“I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.” MenWorldWantNeedsFirstsRealProblemFantasyLandFirst TimeFaultsFoolishRidiculousSillyHopelessReal WorldGet RealReal ProblemsReal MenHopeless RomanticReal Relationship Author:Alexandra Potter
“To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is not based on fantasies of certainty— while at the same time a waiting takes place that is rooted not in wishful thinking but in a deep sense of urgency.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsFirstsMeanActionWaitingFantasyThirdsCertaintyRootedUrgencyWishful ThinkingSense Of Urgency Author:Jacob Needleman
“First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.” FirstsIdeasDreamSpaceFantasyTalesFulfillmentFairyFairy TaleCrownsCalculationsStar Gazing Author:Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
“I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies, fantasy - all and everything fed my dreams. Then as an adult whenever I would go on location the first thing we would do as a family is sign up at the closest library. Not only would we find books, but what was happening in that town, because the library is the head of the community.” FirstsBookSoulDreamCommunityImaginationFantasyGoes OnReaderHappeningsAdultsTownsCuriosityLibraryMy SoulFedsClosestLocationShelvesBiographies Author:Susan Sarandon
“The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations. We have, first of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain open to it's surprises, varied expressions, and mingle it with dreams, fantasies, and emotion for it to attain its highest potency.” FirstsFactsDreamFormLyingEmotionSituationAcceptingMillionsFantasyObjectsExpressionHighestGuiltSurpriseLiberationAtmosphereExpansionVariationFacetsPotency Author:Anais Nin
“Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has it all: great coming of age tale, compelling character, and a fast-paced plot. If his first book is any indication of things to come, then all fantasy readers should rejoice as a new master storyteller has hit the scene.” IfsShouldFirstsBookCharacterAgeSongFantasyNovelBloodMastersReaderSceneMarkTalesGenrePlotComing Of AgeRejoiceCompellingStorytellerDestinedIndicationFast PacedDebut Author:Michael J. Sullivan