Quotes About Fantasy Literature

#1. If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling
as editor, as writer, as painter, as muse.

Jane Yolen

#2. I enjoy fantasy literature very much because of all the reality it involves.

Gonzalo Guma

#3. There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

Terri Windling

#4. Science fiction and fantasy literature has always been defined by tales of heroism. It is meant to represent humanity at our very best, willing to oppose all odds in order to protect the side of good.

Mira Grant

#5. To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

Terry A. O'Neal

#6. Happily-ever-after monogamy has been reinforced so steadily in literature that we tend to feel like failures when we don't achieve that in reality.

Colleen Chen

#7. Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? ... If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

Adam Gopnik

#9. I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

R.L. Stine

#10. She asked where he lived.
Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

J.M. Barrie

#11. Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.

Robin Hobb

#12. Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist.

Adam Gopnik

#13. I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

Shane Warren Jones

#14. 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

#15. Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Hope Mirrlees

#16. History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.

Peter Esterhazy

#17. Ganix didn't need to make friends. Everyone was a friend!

C.J. Milbrandt

#18. Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

Joan D. Vinge

#20. It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy.

J.M. Barrie

#21. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

J.M. Barrie

#22. The tall, thin serious man strode in, his dark cloak billowing so dramatically it threatened to extinguish the lamp flame with its draught. He advanced like a malevolent shadow consuming the dim orange light, filling the room with a presence almost more than human.

Gregory Figg

#23. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.

Jack Vance

#24. No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands ... that can do your brain.

Ivan Stoikov

#25. It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty's forte ... If time were Parry's pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.

S.J. Musgraves

#26. They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy

Jorge Luis Borges

#27. The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity.

Bharati Mukherjee

#28. Evil surrounds everyone, but not everyone is able to confront it.

George A. Kos

#29. As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.

J.K. Rowling

#30. I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

Lois Lowry

#31. Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy ... and on and on and on.

R.A. Salvatore

#32. The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).

Christopher Hitchens

#33. What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature. We have room for everybody, and we are extraordinarily open to genuine experimentation.

Orson Scott Card

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

Katharine Kerr

#35. Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

Brian Aldiss

#36. You are free to make your own choices, but ultimately your choices make you.

C.D. Sutherland

#37. You know, I don't think your brother dislikes you as much as you think. After all, he gave up a kingdom to stay with his family.

C.J. Milbrandt

#38. Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

Jason Ellis

#39. We are all one. Everything is meaningless, and yet at the same time meaningful. Everything matters and doesn't matter just as much, Wisdom said and looked beyond time.(Nakoma, by Gala.J)

Gala.J

#40. I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.

Diablo Cody

#41. For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the human condition, it must be another look at infinity, it must be another way of seeing the paradox of existence.

George Clayton Johnson

#42. When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

Nalo Hopkinson

#43. Calico Kitty

My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime...

Muse

#44. Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#45. Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Antonio Tabucchi

#46. A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

Hope Mirrlees

#47. The odd was the ordinary at Alistair Grim's. The people who lived there were odd. The things they did there were odd. Even the there itself there was odd.

Gregory Funaro

#48. I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.

Edmund White

#49. Have a little faith in your sons. This journey will be the making of them.

C.J. Milbrandt

#50. Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't soar free.

C.J. Milbrandt

#51. Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy!

Eca De Queiros

#52. Amie frowned. 'That's what I can't figure out. I mean everyone wants their happy ending, right? No one cares about reading actual literature anymore anyway. All they want is vampires and supernatural mumbo-jumbo. It's sick, really.

Jennifer Silverwood

#53. To be a good writer, become a good listener.

Cynthia Briggs

#54. He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.

C.S. Lewis

#55. To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

Gail Carriger

#56. Your name isn't Sniffles?" Ewan pretended to be surprised.

C.J. Milbrandt

#57. Reading lets our mind visit new exciting worlds"

~Vianka Van Bokkem

Vianka Van Bokkem

#58. We would learn as much as we could, be as honourable as we could, be as courageous as we could, and be as happy as we could.

S.L. Mills

#59. What is life but a fucked-up factory fabricating fuckups?

Jorge Enrique Ponce

#60. A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like psychoanalysis, it can be dangerous; and it will change you.

Ursula K. Le Guin