Modern Fantasy Quotes

#1. The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.

George R R Martin

#2. Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

Terry Pratchett

#3. In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#4. In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's literature and detective fiction, of modern adventure, mystery and romance.

Michael Dirda

#5. She was tasked with guarding the doorway to the Otherworld, keeping the balance of nature (as much as anyone could in these modern times), and occasionally, helping a worthy seeker.

Deborah Blake

#6. He remembered believing there had been a time when monsters roamed the earth. The brave hearted fought flesh-and-blood dragons instead of shadowboxing their inner demons, the sport of modern man.

Katherine Starbird

#7. An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly evaluating the relative merits of staying home with the kids versus bringing home that second paycheck.

Philip Greenspun

#8. If you cannot do it to the best of your ability, don't do it at all...

Donna Mae Smith

#9. Ah, he would take her beyond
beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul.

Edith Wharton

#10. Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Boris Pasternak

#11. City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.

Leon Trotsky

#12. The result is that children now live in an "ethos of fantasy consumerism." Modern American childhood, says Cross,

Morris Berman

#13. When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

Patti Smith

#14. We don't have a lot of time to practice, but yeah, we need to find a keyboard over there, or else I need to bring one. We're intending to do so. I don't want to let you down and say that we 100% are, but yes, we're intending to do so.

Theresa Wayman

#15. There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

Ian McKellen

#16. Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.

FKA Twigs

#17. I found 'Bordertown' when I was standing on the border between childhood and my teens, and it carried me past that transition. In the process, it helped to create the next step of its own evolution: the modern urban fantasy owes a lot more to 'Bordertown' than many people will ever know.

Seanan McGuire

#18. Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.

Walter Lippmann

#19. The washing up liquid smells of sweeties. It tells me that it is ginger and peach. It smells of something we should still be eating. This seems wrong: it should smell of something after, whatever it is that comes after.

Joanna Walsh

#20. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

William Collins

#21. Ingrid shrugged ... like Marie Antoinette hearing about the starving peasants.

Peter Abrahams

#22. Worlds need those pockets, the urban closets that hide the skeletons of a modern society.

S.A. Check

#23. I am a more modern female vampire since I came just when our world was disappearing due to the intromission of this future.-Enyo

Carolina Cody Aldaz

#24. How old did they tell you I am?" she demanded, hurrying to match his pace.

Joel shook his head. "If my mother ever taught me anything, it was to never question a lady's age.

Deidre Huesmann

#25. Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.

Paul Di Filippo

#26. I cannot live without reading.

Aidan Chambers

#27. There are infinite numbers of do overs for your teen girls.

Brene Brown

#28. He could traverse any terrain on the planet, kill someone countless ways with his bare hands and can and had survived behind enemy lines with his team on more than one occasion. But the thought of Nora going out with someone else twisted him up

Katie Reus

#29. Cursed, he once cried in a fit of rage. His temper has always been as restless and unpredictable as the sea itself. But his words had power behind them and I felt the effects instantly. Too late to take it back.

Jennifer Silverwood

#30. Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

James Dyson

#31. We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Albert Einstein

#32. THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD Experience Card's full versatility, from science fiction to fantasy, from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction.

Orson Scott Card