Fantasy Quotes

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy. (Marilyn Monroe)
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. View quote
Max Beerbohm
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. View quote
Sarah Zettel
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. View quote
Lionel Trilling
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. View quote
Maya Angelou
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. (Iris Murdoch)
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. View quote
Edward Albee
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. View quote
Octavia Butler
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do. View quote
Maurice Sendak
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. View quote
Carl Jung
Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago. View quote
Lenny Bruce
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy. View quote
Harrison Ford
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. View quote
Manuel Puig
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. (Manuel Puig)
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms. View quote
Manuel Puig
Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them. View quote
Brandon Mull
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. View quote
Lynn Abbey
I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level. View quote
Donna Summer