Fantasy Quotes - Page 8

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.

Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

I have so much respect for John [Galliano]s technical skill and the fantasy, its just something that I dont find relevant now, especially when it restricts a woman, because in every other area they have so much freedom.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

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

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

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything else I tend more to acquire or amass than collect. I have vinyl records I listen to all the time when I work. But I don’t collect records. I just buy records where the price seems right and it’s music I actually listen to.