Fantasy Quotes - page 5

What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy. (Robin McKinley)
Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends. View quote
Robin Wright
Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head? View quote
Simon Pegg
Finally I just had to get out. Because when that fantasy seeps into the reality, she just becomes an incredibly ugly person. She feels she can distort anything that occurs for whatever purpose she wants. Whatever she feels, that's what is, as far as she's concerned. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier. View quote
Sarah Zettel
Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well. View quote
Sarah Zettel
The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies. View quote
Sarah Zettel
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. View quote
Sarah Zettel
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi
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. View quote
Trudi Canavan
I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a travellers perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides. (Trudi Canavan)
Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart. View quote
William Goldman
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine? View quote
Charlie Trotter
Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy? View quote
Shannon Hale
... fantasy is not practice for what is real-fantasy is the opiate of women. View quote
Shannon Hale
My favorite fantasy? You come down into my daytime resting place stark naked," he said, and I could see the gleam of his teeth as he smiled. "Oh, wait," Bill said. "That's already happened. View quote
Charlaine Harris
The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth. View quote
Vasily Smyslov
If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own. View quote
David Eddings
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds. (David S. Goyer)
Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head.”-max. View quote
James Patterson
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. View quote
Jean M. Auel
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines. View quote
Judith Krantz
I live a life very similar to my characters in that I live a full-blown summer fantasy from June to September. I go to the beach and work there every day. View quote
Elin Hilderbrand