“The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.” WorldIdeasForceFantasyUniversalBarbariansImposing Author:Garet Garrett
“Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. It is as if you are living in a fantasy world of a fable. This is an interesting and sad syndrome. I’m sure that I have that syndrome. If it’s not it, then why the heck does my every moment with the ordinary girl feel like a fable?” IfsWorldFeelsDoeEndsMomentsGirlInterestingFantasyOrdinaryIllnessMental IllnessPairsFablesSyndromesWonderlandFantasy WorldsBinocularsOrdinary Girl Author:Joo Won
“Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.” WorldGivingCharacterStoriesFantasyWillingReaderEnd TimesSpend TimeFantasy Stories Author:Jason Ellis
“If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.” IfsWorldFantasyTownsEveningCinemaBeen In LoveFriend LoveTorres Author:Dino De Laurentiis
“At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.” WorldPersonsMadeHomeFantasyTinyNoiseRopePipeFantasy WorldsHeatingTiny Things Author:Willard Wigan
“After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.” PeopleWorldGivingHeartImportantIdeasFormPassionReadingLiteratureInterestFantasyNovelClearSubjectsCenturyStyleDramaBasesMiracleCriticsPatterns20th CenturyPointingFablesAnalyticsDeductionsAllan PoeDenouement Author:Jules de Goncourt
“All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.” WorldIdeasSuccessImaginationCreativityFantasyInnovationSubstitutesRehearsalCriminal Mind Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
“In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.” PeopleWorldWayDoeStoriesLiteratureDifferencesCompassionWonderTeachFantasyStrangePerspectiveReaderPagesImportanceToleranceFantasticHorizonOpennessRealisticExpansionHere And NowNew ExperiencesFathomSense Of WonderStrange WorldFantasy Stories Author:Jane Yolen
“As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.” WorldTwoMatterMomentsRomanceFoundGamesSpeakFantasyNovelDoubtFeminismPrideTypeReturnLoversPagesIdealsDatingPrejudicePassionateDecadesPartnersNo DoubtTidesRetreatCourtshipPrototypeHepburnDarcyTracySparringTantalizingSparring Partner Author:Stephen Holden
“I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy world. That's why I started writing songs and stories from a very young age. I'd much rather walk around anonymously cooking up tales than face the people that I have known forever.” PeopleWorldWritingRealStoriesAgeFacesYoungCertainSongFoundWalksKnownFantasyForeverCookingReal LifeTalesYoung AgeFace To FaceWriting SongsFantasy Worlds Author:Jenny Lewis
“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
“I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me is what the world would be like if we were free of conventional limits. Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules.” IfsWorldStillsI CanDifferentRealShowsHappensWould BeInterestSpaceFantasyLimitsArchitectureNot InterestedConventionalEvokeFantasy Worlds Author:Lebbeus Woods
“In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest is going to get them excited? People enjoy fantasy, and that is just what mathematics can provide - a relief from daily life, an anodyne to the practical workaday world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantKidsEnjoyInterestCasesFantasyMathematicsExcitedMathPracticalsReliefDaily LifeRelevantWant SomethingCompoundsCompound Interest Author:Paul Lockhart
“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
“Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ... (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. ... In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.” WorldMatterFantasyReturnReaderBattleMereSeekingAppearanceInstanceStomachMeaninglessCurtainsRemindingBarbariansVelvetEnchantedAxes Author:Michael Dirda
“To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality; to infuse life with color, motion and strange scents that intoxicate; to leap beyond imagination into that space between the worlds where fantasy becomes real; to be at once animal and god. Magic is...the ultimate adventure.” WorldRealDreamRealityFormForceImaginationSpaceAnimalFantasyMagicStrangeColorAdventureUltimateSightRealmsLeapScentUnseenSoarSpace BetweenUnchartedUnseen Forces Book:Spiral Dance: Slipcase Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase
“Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.” WorldStoriesSituationMoralFantasyFocusHappeningsAspectEssenceStill Life Author:Terry Goodkind
“Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.” WorldRealityBeautifulMovingFantasyExtremesWondrousNormalityJolly Author:Terry Gilliam
“The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.” WorldWellsMeanDoeArtBeliefChallengesHalfFantasyThis WorldComfortableArt IsSurpriseBoringMoodRevelationsArrogantTrapsVentureDeliciousSmugness Author:Russell Lynes
“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
“The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what’s simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It’s like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.” WorldShowsEasySimpleFantasySeeingMagicGlassesComplicatedSurfaceMessHarry PotterMagicianPottersNarniaMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Naomi Novik
“One of my favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church. If women simply stop giving our time and energy to the institutions that oppress, they would have to cease to do so.” IfsWorldGivingCountryNextEnergyChurchFantasyInstitutionsMy FavoriteCeaseOur TimeSundayTime And EnergySingle WomenCountries Of The World Author:Sonia Johnson
“If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.” IfsWorldWould BeWantedFantasyTenManagementFantasy Worlds Author:George Lucas
“Republicans and nerds have so much in common -- they both live in fantasy worlds and have no idea how to relate to women.” WorldIdeasCommonFantasyRepublicanRelateNo IdeaNerdFantasy Worlds Author:Stephen Colbert
“To go into Ukraine and to take over, to invade Crimea, is a huge step. And [Russian President Vladimir Putin] would only have done it with a president who has shown from the very beginning that [President Obama] is living in a fantasy world...They imagine the world as a new interconnected world where climate change is the biggest threat and they are shocked that the Russians actually are interested in territory.” WorldDonePresidentStepsFantasyImagineHugeThreatClimateClimate ChangeTerritoryPresident ObamaShockedPutinUkraineInterconnectedFantasy WorldsCrimeaInterconnected World Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today” WorldNeedsEnoughRealityTodayFantasy Author:Alexander McQueen
“Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant, in the tradition of Bladerunner, with the nostalgia of New Orleans. With crisp and beautiful prose, AFTERLIFE blurs the line between the living and the dead to ask life's ultimate questions-even if they take nine lives to solve.” IfsWorldBeautifulAsksLinesFantasyTraditionUltimateSolveStormNostalgiaNineBreathingGenreProseAfterlifeUrbanNew LifeNew OrleansBlurPoignantCrispsUndeadUltimate QuestionsNine Lives Author:Tosca Lee
“The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.” WorldLongBookIdeasCharacterFantasyLong TimeMirrorsOriginalsComplexesGenreEmpiresHorizonNew IdeasElegantExpandingIntricate Author:Adrian Tchaikovsky
“When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.” PeopleWorldAgeRealizingFantasyBotherRealisingMadhouses Author:John Cleese
“I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.” WorldBelieveGamesFantasy Author:Lana Parrilla