Top 100 Fantasy Novel Quotes
#1. I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes. And I just, I kept it up, it was sort of fantasy, it was part soap opera. It was utterly dreadful, but that's how I got hooked.
Jacqueline Carey
#2. I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
William Golding
#3. People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.
Michelle M. Pillow
#4. Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense.
Rutabaga.
Brandon Sanderson
#5. Nahum bobbed again. 'My crest is cropped by croaking cranes. I go to drown in doleful dumps, dead-drunk with drearihead.
John Bellairs
#6. I have no use for your body, for within its youth lies a rotten wench already deceased.
Keisha Keenleyside
#7. You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.
George R R Martin
#8. I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a mystery novel can't have fantastic elements in it. Similarly, there's no reason why your epic fantasy series can't have elements of a mystery.
Patrick Rothfuss
#9. No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.
R.A. Salvatore
#10. I could have drowned today. If they hadn't been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn't woken up, I would have drowned.
Erica Sehyun Song
#11. I felt like I was suffocating, like my future and all my happiness were gone. I've never felt that before, Ava. I can't let you go.
Nicole Gulla
#12. I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.
Erica Sehyun Song
#13. I suppose it's why I usually loved to get lost in a good romance novel, because it would let me escape into the fantasy that I hoped to make come true one day. -Kate, Zack
Sawyer Bennett
#14. The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.
Erica Sehyun Song
#15. Look, I went to a lot of trouble to come here and try to help you. I'm in more trouble than I can guess, but if you don't want my help ... maybe I should have just stayed home.
D.L. Given
#16. Mattie, I'm sorry to drag you away." "Don't worry about it. It's late. My mother always said nothing good happens after midnight." I barked out a surprised laugh. "Your mother, clearly, is not a Sidhe.
Belinda M. Gordon
#17. It's terrific, Clare," Henry says, and we stare at each other, and I think, "Don't leave me.
Audrey Niffenegger
#19. The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
Gail Z. Martin
#21. The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.
Brian A. McBride
#22. I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff.
Jesse L. Martin
#23. Of course, that's how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it's happening, but you never really know, do you? How can you?
Tom Xavier
#24. The next morning, boom! She found herself waking in bed next to the handsome, rogue-supporting character of her favourite novel. Out of the blue, Mary Sue was inside the #1 bestseller, epic fantasy novel ever written.
Mads Sukalikar
#25. We have more brilliant fantasy novels than brilliant fantasy movies. Movies and TV are done by committee. But with a novel, it's really just one person running the show. That allows for a clarity and unity of vision that's pretty unique, artistically.
Patrick Rothfuss
#26. I never get writer's block. My secret ... I have purring cats in surround sound while I write ... best white noise on the planet. R.Rose when asked how she deals with writer's block.
R. Rose
#27. When you read a fantasy novel part of the fun is getting to explore a new world. Everyone knows that. But I believe the same is true about characters. You can explore interesting people in the same way that you explore a town or a culture.
Patrick Rothfuss
#28. My experiment has demonstrated that people from the past can be artificially reincarnated. The purpose is so people from Twinmortal do not commit the same error that we did.-Amaranth
Carolina Cody Aldaz
#29. Let's just start over", gurgled the hagget's voice. We cannot give up now.
Zax Vagen
#30. All I could think about was the heat of his soft lips, the way they fitted so wonderfully as I was coaxing him to open them some more, just enough to let my tongue slip in and taste him. I needed a taste, needed to complete this fantasy of mine.
Stephanie Witter
#31. My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'
Lisa Tuttle
#33. A novel is a bridge from one heart to another. - Anon
Susan McKenzie
#34. I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.
Carrie Vaughn
#35. Fantasy novels reveal "emergency escape routes" from reality. Romance novels dish out a banquet of Eye Candy. Otherworldly passion erupts when the two collide in an epic novel of unforgettable characters and dire circumstances.
Sarah J. Pepper
#36. Fate isn't set in stone. Free will can change everything
A.J. Messenger
#37. When he had brushed a thin coat of dust off the pebbled leather cover of one volume, he saw the words: Register of All Wizards and Warlocks of the South Kingdom and of the North Kingdom from the Beginning of the World to the Present Time.
John Bellairs
#38. With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold the news of the second coming. I hear it. And I fear it.
Brian A. McBride
#39. The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought.
C.G. Rousing
#40. Spirits didn't notice death. By the rule of impermanence, what was meant to break simply broke, and there was only the next breaking and the next.
E.J. Koh
#41. Like I've told you before, Beverly, I don't care where we live as long as we're together." Vance ... "The Elder Effect
D.L. Given
#42. We are all of the same substance, the same life. Though there are many differences between us, those are merely the shadows that delineate our boundaries. Our light is the same.
Sally Wiener Grotta
#43. What am I to you?'
Sophiel smiled.
'The sun. You are my sun, like Astrid said. My sun, that lights up my life. That looks after me with its fiery rays. I only have to turn towards it for it to set fire to my heart.
A.O. Esther
#45. She snorted in amusement at my remark. "When are the guards going to start to notice?"
Keith peered into the distance. "Starting now,
Erica Sehyun Song
#46. I have two rules I follow religiously:
#1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
#2. It's all small stuff.
R. Rose
#47. The Fourth Crown Princess of the blue Cresent Islands had sixteen rituals to observe from the moment of waking to when she broke her fast.
Julia Golding
#48. The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.
David Mitchell
#49. Ah, life in medieval times! Yeah, we only have to worry about losing our heads every day.
David Kuklis
#50. Men will continue to suffer from their own connivance, until they recognise and act upon the truth within themselves.
Georgina Zuvela
#51. Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience.
Angelika Rust
#52. Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality."
Excerpt from novel You Can't Escape Love by Grace Willows
Grace Willows
#53. My illusion, the idea of a soul mate, was so entrenched in my fantasy that the thought of letting him go, wrecked me.
M.R. Field
#54. I do not think, Prospero,' he said, 'that one should attribute a very high degree of reality to your house.
John Bellairs
#56. Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can't MANHANDLE THEM!
Erica Sehyun Song
#57. Some truths are hard to swallow, so we share it within tales that most people will accept without being frightened by the truth hidden within.
Larry Itejere
#58. It is man who has abandoned God, not God who has abandoned man.
Angelia Griffin
#59. I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.
Destinee Hardwick
#60. I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!'
'And I've tried living without you, and it just won't do!
J.L. Sheppard
#62. He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of foam turned into miniature rainbows as they caught the light of the evening sun setting behind the clouds.
Erica Sehyun Song
#63. You know what it is like to wake up in the middle of a bunch of corpses with a little girl in your arms scared to death?-Enyo
Carolina Cody Aldaz
#64. Unrequited love is most painful. If you express you feeling it may hurt her/him but if don't express it will hurt you like hell.
Raj Singh
#65. He had taken the precaution of closing the inside shutters of the only window, and his staff, though it leaned lightly on the door, was capable of keeping out anyone who did not want to smash his way in with an ax.
John Bellairs
#66. Death doesn't always want your eternal sleep. Sometimes Death just wants your eternity.
Jacquelynn Gagne
#67. I don't want to look. I've got to look." Vance ... "Vital Perception
D.L. Given
#68. 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.
Lynn Abbey
#69. Change your mind and change your whole life experience.
C.G. Rousing
#70. People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I love fantasy.' I don't know that people are necessarily finishing 'Hunger Games' and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.
David Levithan
#71. To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?
Orhan Pamuk
#72. When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
Salman Rushdie
#73. I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
Piers Anthony
#74. Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.
Mike Dickenson
#75. We are a species born from the planet. If the machines truly want to protect the Earth type planets they must learn to take care of us too.- Sun Wukong
Carolina Cody Aldaz
#76. If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.
Mark Glamack
#77. Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It's beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.
David B. Coe
#78. This place is alive," Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.
Teresa Flavin
#80. You retain the Ki. Whether or not you become a warrior is for you to discover.
Richard Finney
#82. I imagined a time when being gay is as unquestioned and un-judged as is having blue eyes. Some might call it fantasy or science fiction. I'd like to think it's the future.
Missouri Vaun
#83. I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.
Felicia Day
#84. Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn't going to stop us from being together.
Erica Sehyun Song
#85. Tequila! Would you not think fallen angels would be immune to it."
"Fallen, hate that word! I prefer..misplaced
Paul Guildea
#86. The two weary but still talkative wizards sat in a pair of fan-backed chairs and pitched pebbles at the drunken satyr in the fountain. They talked about wars, enchantments, and obscure facts until the sky above the forest began to be fringed with pale blue.
John Bellairs
#87. Somebody
Give us a story
Narrate all the places
That we'll never see
Give us a haven
For our imagination
So at least in our minds
We can attempt to be free
Charlotte Wessels
#88. A great word becomes a great sentence with great meaning from great writers who have a great imagination and who enchant greatness
Mark Peter Evans
#90. Could be I've finally gone crazy, but men crazier than me have done greater things than I've ever dreamed, so we'll see where it takes me." ~ Tom Parker, Imagination Stone
Drew Bankston
#91. Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.
Svetlana Alexievich
#92. We're going to make a tunnel for that ship. We're going to make sure that little lady has every chance in the world to survive. If I get any trouble out of any of ya ... " he paused. "I'll handle it myself, do you understand?" Johan ... "Vital Perception
D.L. Given
#93. Then she loved him as she would a manifestation of herself, both silenced and wounded in existence, both everything and nothing to eternity.
E.J. Koh
#94. It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you.
Steve M. Robinson Jr.
#95. You'll be civilized or we'll leave your arse here." Johan ... "Vital Perception
D.L. Given
#97. I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.
Elizabeth Hand
#98. I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.
Erica Sehyun Song
#99. I, the great and powerful D.S. will create a harem for all the women in the world!!!! For a woman, no greater joy exists in the entire universe than to fuck me, the ultimate sex symbol!!!
Kazushi Hagiwara
#100. The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
Kate Forsyth
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