Fantasy Quotes - Page 15

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well... it really sucked. It was a plotless, clichéd mess.

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

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?

My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

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

I always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.

I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very much.

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

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

I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.

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

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

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Dreams that are realistic, often come out of fantasies.

We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.

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

We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

Another sex worker and writer I respect put it this way: she said that as a writer, you're not about pleasing people, and as a sex worker it's all about pleasing people. It's all about creating this fantasy. I still feel like as a writer you actually do have put on a show. You can't just hand over your notes. And there is a degree to which you are appealing to the reader's vanity, whether you tell yourself you're doing that or not.