Fantasy Quotations | Page 6

I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.

Fantasy isn't something you run out of.

To all the fantasy owners who drafted me: You're welcome.

The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

You can watch 130 different horse tracks, live, betting on them around the world on the Internet. There's a huge amount, whether it's horse racing or blackjack or Texas Hold 'Em, whatever you want to do. It's not just my fantasy land.

The typical fan is sitting back and cheering and watching and getting absorbed into it - but with fantasy sports, you're competing independently and controlling the outcomes in a little different way.

The effect of the fantasy is based in part on the ambivalence kids feel toward their parents and independence. Kids want and fear being left alone. These stories and film deal with that ambivalence.

The gamble is that employers won't leave or cease operating here. It's pure fantasy to assume that mandating a new cost will do no harm.

The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it.

The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

Even if your fantasy comes true, that doesn't mean you should stop dreaming.

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head.”-max

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

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

I'm more of a fantasy kind of person. I like movies. My favorite movie is 'Kick Ass.'

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die...

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian.

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

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

Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead

Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.

I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

I love, love, love fantasy, like Lord of the Rings and things like that.

Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with

ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.

You have so many sources to draw on when you're a fantasy writer.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.

I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy.

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

We talked [with Scott Derrickson] about making it kind of muscular and practical. Yeah it's a fantasy but what's the difference between fantasy and reality really?

$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image,

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

Photography threatens fantasy.

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy." Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be.

Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment.

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot of skills and discoveries about yourself together. In that respect, it also enables you to learn that being in a band is a lot tougher than sitting around and playing guitar in your bedroom.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.

One man's fantasy is another man's job.

In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost our representation of our fantasies and so our songs are representations of our fantasies.

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

Growning up I felt incredibly guilty anout my fantasies and the things I wanted sexually. I was like: "Why do I feel this way? I don't understand it, but nobody's going to talk to me about it because we're not allowed to talk about that..."

We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.