Top 30 Quotes About Fantasy Creatures
#1. I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.
Michael Nutter
#2. Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.
L.E. Horn
#3. I realize that, to many readers, Hard Fantasy may seem to be a contradiction in terms. Fantasy, according to most generally recognized definitions, differs from both 'real world' fiction and 'science fiction' in that magic or magical creatures are active elements.
Jane Lindskold
#4. Even if they are fictional, I always thought that mermaids were beautiful creatures. Of course, they don't compare to you, but still ...
Daniele Lanzarotta
#5. Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.
Alberto Manguel
#6. The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It's the tender understanding that we're living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there's quite a bit of wonder in that.
F.K. Preston
#7. I had a book that was given to me as a kid that was called 'Faeries.' It was this dark, sinister book with pictures that used to scare me because they were these creepy little creatures. But, I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff.
Anna Silk
#8. Mortals were such fickle creatures. They called into the dark, demanded answers and attention from forces they could not comprehend, and yet when they had that attention and those answers, they complained about them.
Philippa Ballantine
#9. At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
Imelda Staunton
#10. Charlie said, his voice rising an octave in desperation. "I know it's ridiculous, but I keep trying to rationalise everything and it's driving me crazy. Did you spot that flying horse earlier? I found myself trying to explain it with Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
Victor Kloss
#11. The Singularity is at once an escape and a birth fantasy. I said to him: A Zeus dream that avoids the organic body altogether. Brand-new creatures burst forth from men's heads. Presto! The mother and her evil vagina disappears.
Siri Hustvedt
#12. The word 'fairy' conjures up images of cute little creatures, so I don't use it. I use 'metahominids' from the Greek for 'other' and 'men.' They aren't cute - this is no fairy story.
F.R. Maher
#13. Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
Karen Joy Fowler
#14. Was he a real goblin? A minute ago Ben would have scoffed at the prospect, but then came the dragon.
Victor Kloss
#15. It had been a long, dull day at Jackson without Hurrican Lena, and I was starting to wonder how I ever got through eight periods without all the trouble she caused me. Without all the trouble she made me want to cause myself.
Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
#16. You know how it is
you get older, you get wiser, you start to ask yourself 'is it any use being able to summon creatures of the nether deeps when I could be watching BBC 4?
Kate Griffin
#17. I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.
Kathleen Sebelius
#18. I never thought my life would end like this. Being hunted by mythological creatures in my pajamas. Honestly, it never entered my mind.
Amanda Carlson
#19. It is always the teacher who must learn the most ... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#20. Sean is permanently damaged; something is awry in that boy.
Maggie Mitchell
#21. Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.
Ted Naifeh
#22. Before the day there was only endless night. When the stars rained down from the skies, and giants and other unfathomable creatures roamed the land, there was a goddess who ruled over them all because she had been clever enough to figure out the secret of time and how to walk between worlds.
Scarlett Amaris
#23. Evan's gaze fell on the massive form in the middle of the courtyard. He jabbered incoherently, pointing at the huge monster, sure it was another demon.
Arnvar hastily informed him to, "Sssh and stop pointing. He's just an orc."
Just an Orc!
Will Collins
#24. It's time to be the person you were meant to be, Cat. You don't just have to make decisions and stand by them now. You have to live with them.
Amanda Bouchet
#25. Haylee thought of all the supernatural creatures that could kill her ... a vampire or even a vampire slayer, and became angry at the idea a fairy might end her life tonight.
Natasha Larry
#26. I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.
Greg Brown
#27. Just because you do not know how they look like, doesn't mean you cannot see them.
A.D.Y. Howle
#28. We humans are the only creatures on the planet capable of articulating worlds which are contrary, even in the most minor way, to reality. Every story, I think, begins there. With a dream. A fantasy.
L.M. Halloran
#29. The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.
Gloria Vanderbilt
