Fantasy Quotes

She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making ...

[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.

The writing of fantasy is best left to those who have nothing better to do, as is indicated by the f...

But some, a very come to the gods all on their own They find their way—long and far it is, sometimes...

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken p...

I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remem...

After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to se...

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.

she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh wo...

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such t...

Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings...

Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. W...

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotatio...

Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and ...

Only in Xanth would parents see a dragon looming over their children and depart with confidence.

In my stubborn youth, I believed that I could stand alone, that I was strong enough to conquer my en...

..There were two undeniable truths in the Realms: It was very easy to overestimate a drow and even e...

Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for cross...

Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good w...

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, b...

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that wa...

Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible...

The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject bec...

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science f...

He was looking for a brightness, a resolve, a triumph over tomorrow that hardly seemed to be there. ...

Beware the autumn people

The entire history of mankind is problem solving, or science fiction swallowing ideas, digesting the...

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Le...

The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...

How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them?

The Lion banner sways and falls in the horror-haunted gloom;A scarlet Dragon rustles by, borne on wi...

Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and ...

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the ...

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our ...

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the st...

I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he...

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Oh, how long were the days of a man.When he strode upon the broken land.He sailed as far as a man co...

I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't t...

The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "n...

We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lig...

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall u...

Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perh...

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to u...

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose...

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

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

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spi...

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict...

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially a...

Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours. Your night is my cloak, my shield, m...

We go straight". I say again. "If we start making turns, we might not know what direction is what. I...

I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid,...

If you are a dreamer, come in,If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic b...

Not many years before the Happening, one of your country's largest religious bodies officially decla...

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon.

The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Moth...

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon.

The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Moth...

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon.

The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Moth...

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon.

The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Moth...

One day I found him amid large packages from which spilled attractive, glossy paperbacks with mythic...

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of...

One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and ...

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.― Stephen King, The Shining

Where do you get dreams like this?

The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He...

Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wh...

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb. what a stupid lamb. what a sick, masochistic lion.

Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome

None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marbl...

The closest I ever got to Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms was when I bought the box game set for th...

the siren song/called silence

I am Crone, eldest of the Moon's Great Ravens, whose eyes have looked upon a hundred thousand years ...

Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like ...

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

Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread.The hunters are hunted, white water runs red.The Gnawer...

You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior o...

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

Peeta opens his mouth for the first bite without hesitation. He swallows, then frowns slightly. "The...

When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...

I've been down by the stream collecting berries. Would you care for some?"I would, actually, but I d...

He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.

Oh, what a lovely owl!" Cried the Wart.But when he went up to it and held out his hand, the owl grew...

There are no boundaries among the geese. How can you have boundaries if you fly?

So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my bo...

Dear DiaryWent out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep...

A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid.

I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the...

It was the forest’s fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew ...

and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event

Who would you be but who you are?