Quotes About Fantasy

#1. Perhaps no one religion contains all the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together. Or perhaps the elves are right and there are no gods. But how can I know for sure?" - Pg 479 Brisingr

Christopher Paolini

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Humans don't leap buildings. Stuntmen with harnesses do. And won't my crashing eight stories to the ground be detrimental to the mission? The dark elves will swarm me and take me hostage instantly."
"That might be true, but you're not going to fall," he said.

Amanda Carlson

#5. This is the singular fantasy of human intimacy: that one plus one will somehow, someday, equal one.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. Shhhhh, I am trying to read.

Anna Del C. Dye

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Fight for faith, and hope will be born.

Nely Cab

#10. 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

#11. The bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

Evan Meekins

#12. We'll free as many as we can and build an army in the forest. It might take years, but I won't rest until every last Calorin is gone from these shores and my father is restored to the throne. - Corin

Claire M. Banschbach

#13. I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it in places that you can't go, any other way.

Chris Wedge

#14. There was no point in the gods trying to separate us. Whether we were on Earth or in hell, we'd spend the rest our days look for the other.

Taisha DeAza

#15. I threatened him with bodily harm. He promised to bring me cake for the rest of my life.

Chris Cannon

#16. 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

#17. Then she appears, the fantasy which haunts my dreams. The creature who taunts me without having one Goddamn clue of the internal chaos she causes.

Sadie Grubor

#18. Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

China Mieville

#19. 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

#20. Shut the front door!" Jenna exclaimed.
Andrew disappeared into the foyer, and when he returned, his eyebrows were furrowed in confusion. "The door is shut?

Laura Kreitzer

#21. Will you accompany me in this dance?" he said, bowing and holding out his hand.
"No, thank you." Miri smiled.
The prince frowned and looked and the chief delegate as if for assistance.
Miri laughed self consciously. "I, uh, I was teasing.

Shannon Hale

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

P.A. Wunderlich

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

Ash Krafton

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Your emotions are your own business.

Brandon Sanderson

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

Stacy Buck

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Sarah Rees Brennan

#31. 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

#32. ...She squeezed Niall's hand and bleakly said, "I don't want you hurt."
"Oh, Serena, that's all I have to know." And with that, he kissed her so passionately, she felt as though she had fae transported to the moon and back...

Terry Spear

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

Bryan Fields

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Nicholas Taylor

#37. Nothing that is will always be.- Open Mic Singer

Geoffrey Thorne

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

Gail Caldwell

#39. Deep within we all have fantasies. Some we may want to share and others so dark we are likely to never tell anyone.

Sally V Teller

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

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

Evan Meekins

#44. 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

#45. I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

Ace Frehley

#46. People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

Raymond E. Feist

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

James Mangold

#48. If the proper preparations have been made and the necessary precautions taken, any staged event is guaranteed success
Ethelred The Unready

Robert Asprin

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

S.R. Crawford

#50. You're strong enough to bear anything, Elli. That's why the stars chose you.

Sarah Fine

#51. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.

F.K. Preston

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

Scott Adams

#53. Are they even capable of love?

Amy Olinger

#54. 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

#55. It's not the having of the gift that makes the difference in life here or in another place. It's how we use that gift that shows the true heart. ~ Acronis

Madison Thorne Grey

#56. 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

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

George Orwell

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

G. Willow Wilson

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

Lee Davidson

#60. Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy.

Niki De St. Phalle

#61. Jev was certain the words "should've known better" would go somewhere on her tombstone, but at the moment her focus shifted to the dozens of angry pixies honed in on her.

Katherine McIntyre

#62. Travelers aren't found. They're called.

Chess Desalls

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

Jefferson Smith

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

Brandon Sanderson

#65. As far as I'm concerned, you're changing the fate of another human being. Maybe he isn't meant to be elected to office. Maybe humans deserve to live with electing the wrong person.

Evette Davis

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

Lisa T Bergren

#67. And when his head slumped forward into his book, she giggled, for she knew that he was hers.

C. Robert Cargill

#68. 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

#69. I don't know about you, but I've got plans for next Thursday. And I'm not in the mood to have them ruined by some apocalypse.

Deborah Blake

#70. 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

#71. That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

Frances Stark

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.

T.L. Rese

#75. Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches, your Grace. That's my motto.

Melissa McPhail

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Max Beerbohm

#78. 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

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

Ned Sublette

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. Was it magic? Of course it was.

Brian Jacques

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. He's lighting up my life and I don't even know his name. He's already perfect.

Poppet

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

Christina L. Barr

#89. 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

#90. I loved his enormous aptitude for compassion, adoration and respect. That was his way of showing love. He lacked the capacity for wickedness, and that caressed my belief that he might just be an angel. My angel.

S.G. Holster

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

Walter De La Mare

#92. 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

#93. Guerilla warfare? I was in way over my head. I told myself that I could do this. It was guerilla warfare every time I went to sleep.

Laura Thalassa

#94. We belong to each other now, the beast declares as it grabs my limp body and takes me up into the darkness.

Frankie Ash

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

Jana Aston

#96. Too much alleged 'fantasy' is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off.

Terry Pratchett

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

Harrison Ford

#98. I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

Andy Murray

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

Katharine Kerr

#100. ROBBING GRAVES! SHES ASKING US TO ROB GRAVES!

Brandon Mull