Quotes About A Fantasy

#1. I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.

Gail Carson Levine

#2. He considered my question for a moment and then ducked his head to kiss me. He tugged me flush up against his chest , pulling me closer than i even though possible, and then his lips touched mine.

Colleen Houck

#3. As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.

Koren Zailckas

#4. Since she moved in, Carter found himself in the mood for a lot of things he hadn't been before. Crispy salmon wasn't one of them.

Kristin Miller

#5. There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#6. Although the villagers rose with the sun to work the fields, attend to the animals, bake their bread, and begin their long list of chores, for me, Leya Truelong, this was a day like no other. Today, Wren River was touched by the fantastic.

Desiccate by Bonnie Ferrante

Bonnie Ferrante

#7. I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing has felt like an attempt to get back there, to my bedroom, my maps, those races and languages and runes.

Ken Baumann

#8. The unification of worlds is an author's priority, as one of them surely resides forbidden to the public.

P.A. Wunderlich

#9. Even a deep chick like me needed to have a shallow spot somewhere inside.

Ash Krafton

#10. Leaning forward in the chair, Harley squeezed out a controlled fart, so no one could hear it. This damn reception area was like a echo chamber. If he weren't careful, it could reverberate around the hall like a shotgun blast.

Alan Kinross

#11. Between dainty bites, she told Amie, 'Oh, you simply are as darling a creature as Henry described! I had no idea of your being so grown up! Henry, she is positively frazzleging!'
Amie deepened her smile, saying, 'And I had no idea you would be so pretty either, madam.

Jennifer Silverwood

#12. You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know.

Stacy Buck

#13. As it so happens, I like your mouth."
"It doesn't
"
"Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An outspoken woman makes the world a livable place. You have fire in you, and I would never put that out.

Dannika Dark

#14. There was always one. Every village seemed to have one young woman who believed her beauty could somehow magically protect her from a monster. Somehow, they would be special enough to tame the Beast.
They were always wrong.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#15. Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#16. What you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better.

Devon Michael

#17. Riding a Dragon is amazing, exhilarating, and murder on the thighs.

Bryan Fields

#18. I've never been a believer in fate. I like to think I'm in control, that my life hasn't been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes all it takes is one wild thought, one brave decision to change everything. This must be one of those times.

Kyle Richardson

#19. Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

E.L. James

#20. If I cared what people thought I probably wouldn't be a fantasy author.

Nicholas Taylor

#21. Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

Gail Caldwell

#22. I've always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons ... I was always drawn to those types of stories.

Sarah J. Maas

#23. The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

Victoria Moran

#24. Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

Terri Windling

#25. A true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.

Evan Meekins

#26. I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. And I hate when fantasy books are allowed to ramble off into five hundred page diatribes which don't advance the story one bit.

Chris Wooding

#27. A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

James Mangold

#28. You can never trust a Vampire, child.

S.R. Crawford

#29. Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there

Scott Adams

#30. She had become the demon, only too much, and too fast. I had an incredible urge to knock her on her ass, take her down a few notches. Turning her just got higher on the priority scale. That's if I didn't kill her first.

L.J. Kentowski

#31. About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.

Lois Tilton

#32. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in as in their rectified version

George Orwell

#33. I suppose every innovation started out as a fantasy.

G. Willow Wilson

#34. My memories came back like a punch in the face. Only good.

Lee Davidson

#35. It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

Jefferson Smith

#36. This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Brandon Sanderson

#37. Are you educated in the art of medicine?" Yeah, the art of Walgreens and Urgent Care. "A bit," I hedged.

Lisa T Bergren

#38. One hand traced small circles against my back, and I pressed closer to him, listening to his heartbeat. "I used to think that having nothing to live for made you a better fighter," he murmured. "Turns out I was wrong on a lot of fronts.

Julie Kagawa

#39. Girls are genius at getting through sexual abuse. Often the only way to get through is not to feel. And that is exactly what these fantasy worlds allow: They give girls a place to go so they don't have to be present in their violated bodies. Brilliant.

Patti Feuereisen

#40. I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Amy Adams

#41. She pulls her hand away and Damian feels the sensation of falling, a somersault into a foreign abyss where a girl with eggplant hair and a hoop in her brow waits in the darkness.

Christy A. Campbell

#42. My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife -
She married a house?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#43. All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Max Beerbohm

#44. The Devil loved watching children pour down the front steps of the high school like lava from a volcano. Trolling for souls. He posed in one of his favorite guises today, a school bus driver.

Serena Schreiber

#45. Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.

Ned Sublette

#46. Information doesn't deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful
fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences
it in a useful way.

Jaron Lanier

#47. 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

#48. If you want to mimic spoons in a drawer, I promise I won't think anythin' of it."
She realized that curling the same way they'd fit much better. She sighed. "Okay, but I get to be the big spoon. I don't want to accidentally bump into your ... "
"Knife?" he supplied.

Ashlyn Chase

#49. The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

Eduardo Galeano

#50. Pointed teeth would give one an appearance of ferocity," he said, tapping a straight white tooth. "Although that might require one to follow through with biting someone from time to time, and the thought is enough to make one feel ill. I don't even like my meat cooked rare.

Danielle L. Jensen

#51. I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#52. Every minute I decide not to kill you is a minute your life is saved. You owe me everything.

Christina L. Barr

#53. Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

Bill Vaughan

#54. Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.

Walter De La Mare

#55. 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.

Lynn Abbey

#56. Oh my God. My fantasy crush is a gynecologist. My gynecologist.

Jana Aston

#57. I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

Harrison Ford

#58. Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

Katharine Kerr

#59. With a blade at your throat, a well-connected uncle or a wealthy mother could not save you. Only you could save yourself.

Natalia Marx

#60. So what did you do, drug me, stuff me in the trunk, then dump me like a sacrificial offering into that vampire's coffin? - Shella

Krista Alasti

#61. 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.

Elizabeth Moon

#62. Luke picked up a piece of paper lying on the seat. "Camden Hills Avenue in the Badlands Golf Club." Luke chuckled. "Going to find a criminal in the Badlands. It kind of has an ironic ring to it.

Amanda Carlson

#63. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!

A.A. Bell

#64. I fell into the water with a large splash and sunk like a stone. My feet guided the way as I drifted further into the murky depths.
Down.
Down.
Down.

Brynn Myers

#65. Shadow is on the move," a soldier said suddenly ...
"We spotted her in the West atrium, then she vanished into the unfinished apartments. Scared the shit out of Dr. Marea on four, then ended up in the kitchen ogling a cheesecake.

Erin Kellison

#66. The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "never gamble without knowning a back way out

Robert Jordan

#67. My body is my own," I said. "I may choose to share it with someone, but it's not for sale or for hire, nor is it a reward. I'd rather starve to death than use it as such.

Erica Dakin

#68. 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

#69. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism. Christians ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. The Christian is the really free man. He is free to have imagination.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#70. But what if Oscar - "
"Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?"
"I was thinking what if he gets mad, but I think your way works as well."
"Then you shall make for a tasty meal.

Erica Sehyun Song

#71. I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In

Claire Messud

#72. Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it used for blood. It brushed her cheek with its wings, then flew off
dancing in the hot air.

Robert Fanney

#73. Every great day has a story and a song!

Faith Reese Martin

#74. 'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

Nathan Fillion

#75. I am a storyteller, spiraling fantasy and reality into mystical tales. That eerie space between fact and fiction, where only the brightest light can scare the shadows - you will find me there.

Sara Frost

#76. That's a really good question - what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. My husband lives in a fantasy world.

Rene Russo

#77. My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.

Ruby Wax

#78. I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.

Roger Deakins

#79. One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the floor, dead.

Brooke Warra

#80. When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all - because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

Eva Hoffman

#81. I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or after-world in which it's impossible to buy a cup of coffee or take an undisturbed afternoon nap.

Joshua Cohen

#82. Build your life brick upon brick,
Live a life of truth,
And you will look back on a life of truth.
Live a life of fantasy,
And you will look back on delusion.

Ming-Dao Deng

#83. I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla trashing New York City before I could believe a guy would put on long tights and bat ears and go and fight crime. Like, the fantasy never made sense to me, on a basic level.

Stephen R. Bissette

#84. Sometimes it takes a little madness to fulfill great things.

Melissa Kuch

#85. That's because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole," said one of the other boys. "C.S. Lewis never went through any doors. He didn't know how it worked. He wanted to tell a story, and he'd probably heard about kids like us, and he made shit up.

Seanan McGuire

#86. Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters - no small inspiration to take from a series whose beautifully androgynous male characters often appear to be some kind of heterosexual stress test.

Tom Bissell

#87. Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

Eudora Welty

#88. I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.

Katie Aselton

#89. I love dressing up. I'm from a huge African family and grew up in a really colorful place. The way I dress reflects my environment and wanting to take people into a fantasy world for half an hour.

Shingai Shoniwa

#90. Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over, perhaps create their own world where everything is better..

TheBakaViolinist

#91. Fate is a tricky animal. Those who believe they harness it, often find a difficult beast to master.

Daniel McHugh

#92. I'm like a toy to her, a toy that someone has promised her. Maybe not her favorite, but still hers.

Nicole Gulla

#93. 'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

Peter Jackson

#94. Of all the various unpleasant ways to be aroused from a sound sleep, one of the worst is the noise of a dragon and a unicorn playing tag. Myth Conceptions by Robert Asprin

Robert Asprin

#95. It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

John Ortberg

#96. The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

Paul Di Filippo

#97. Well, the only reason we're friends is because you can rock a tweed suit," she informed, tone mock serious. "So if you want to keep me around, I expect more tweed.

Laura Kreitzer

#98. No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.

Nicole Gulla

#99. While I think you were a rotten father and are still a horrid excuse for a person, I appreciate your ability to mix revenge and charity.

Kate M. Colby

#100. What are you thinking about?"
"Whether they'll write my life story as a tragedy or an epic fantasy.

Maggie Stiefvater