Quotes About Fantasy Places

#1. Somebody
Give us a story
Narrate all the places
That we'll never see
Give us a haven
For our imagination
So at least in our minds
We can attempt to be free

Charlotte Wessels

#2. Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

David Chalmers

#3. The other dark places,' Evan whispered. Visions of tunnels of earth and stone, caves and streams entered his head. It was far beneath them. He knew it was real and it was down there, waiting.

Mary G. Thompson

#4. Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

Dan Quayle

#5. I am only a little rose who grows in deep and difficult places. ~ Song of Songs.

Nicole Arlyn

#6. Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.

Susan Jacoby

#8. Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions.

Helen Garner

#9. It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. In Dark Places,
May we Never be truly Alone.....
~Susan Schroder, Circle the Sun books

Susan Schroder

#11. Love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places.

Lauren Oliver

#12. Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

David Brin

#13. It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

Margaret Haddix

#14. Books are written to take you places planes could never reach, so let your imagination soar.

R.L. Stoll

#15. Well, I'm not sure what suspicious looks like. Sometimes when you come down the mountain and stand behind those trees, you look suspicious.

Melina Marchetta

#16. I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.

Terry Pratchett

#17. I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.

Meghan O'Rourke

#18. Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.

Eileen Wilks

#19. Do not deceive yourself, Gawain. There are black places in the heart of every man.

Suzannah Rowntree

#20. Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.

Karl Lagerfeld

#21. I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

Peter David

#22. Before the beginning ends, start a new chapter.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#23. I won't argue with you, but still it's secretly turning me into a hateful person. I figure that the best revenge, though, is to leave people to their own devices, and they will make their own lives hell.

Dee Dee Ramone

#24. I think I knew even then it would be my maps that would take me across the world, to places and people unknown and into cultures otherwise closed to me. In mapping them I would come to know them a little and at times my very eagerness pained me.

Julie Haydon

#25. It was always easy to think that happiness and wisdom lay in the shadows, in places that have never yet been seen.

Kay Kenyon

#26. I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

Samantha Shannon

#27. He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

Anne Carson

#28. 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

#29. Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

Terry Brooks

#30. I have drawn the line, and I am still on this side of it.

Caroline Kettlewell

#31. I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Gale Anne Hurd

#32. I am a spinner of yarns; hopefully to transport the reader or listener to places I see in my minds eye.

Barry Tyrrell

#33. May the light of the Guardian dwell in you always, and may you be a source of light in those places where shadows gather. (Mariah Templeton, Earth's Watcher to Ben)

Dianne Astle

#34. Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.

Gloria Steinem

#35. 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