Fantasy Quotes - page 6

She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy. (Kathy Reichs)
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. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy? View quote
Alan Rickman
I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive. View quote
Laini Taylor
How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard? View quote
Lisa See
Victory is the thought transformation resulting from comprehending that physical immortality...perpetual longevity, sans illness and aging...eternal, healthy, youthful life in your living flesh... is not a fantasy, but a practical and attainable possibility. View quote
Linda Goodman
I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy. View quote
Suzanne Vega
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. View quote
Lynn Abbey
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. (Manolo Blahnik)
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle. View quote
Naomi Wolf
There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford. View quote
Alexander Wang
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy. View quote
James Earl Jones
The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it? View quote
Neil Jordan
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets. View quote
Diane Duane
I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP. View quote
Rachel Zoe
One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me. View quote
Lisa Kudrow
One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks. View quote
Patty Duke
You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person. (Jenny Han)
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. View quote
Elizabeth Moon
But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world. View quote
Elizabeth Moon
You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. View quote
Elizabeth Moon
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. View quote
Elizabeth Moon