Fantasy Quotes

What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hung...

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

Used every man according to his capacity.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and an...

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming...

[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their v...

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I...

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becom...

Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing ...

In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable,...

(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stor...

Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union:Nine months Landsman's bee...

When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so t...

Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty...

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful an...

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they're as clever as can be and are convinc...

He had never been willing to believe that life had to be as gray and dull as people claimed. He hear...

There are people who can never go to Fantastica," said Mr. Coreander, "and others who can, but who s...

What do you suppose it means?'[Bastian] asked. ""DO WHAT YOU WISH.'" That must mean I can do anythin...

For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend...

Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pa...

Therefore it seemed a dreadful injustice that these wise races should perish at the hands of creatur...

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among s...

The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, tha...

Faey lived, for those who knew how to find her, within Ombria's past. Parts of the city's past lay w...

And Mother does not hate her; actually, she fears Damaya. Is there a difference? Maybe.

...she wonders why a part of her is trying to find value in degradation.

He has come to seduce the god of seduction, and oh, has he come prepared.

How terrible to be a god of change and endure grief unending.

I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. De...

But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppre...

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

enter the world of things as they are

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth com...

Lettie shrugged. “Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t....

You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.

Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki...

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you c...

I know a charm that can cure pain and sickness, and lift the grief from the heart of the grieving.I ...

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, ...

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

Being a geological formation gives you a lot of time to think. Also, I subscribed to a number of lea...

The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbroker...

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equip...

The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people," he told them graciously, "and you do...

CHORONZON "I am anti-life, the beast of judgement. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end o...

He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor...

There was a moment of hesitation, and then her mouth opened against his, and her tongue slid into hi...

It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south d...

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.

Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. Bod reached out his hand...

Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ...

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more compl...

I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasion...

Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied whe...

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've vis...

The Magical Negro rested his red cane on his shoulder and leisurely strolled into the forest to see ...

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the b...

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels ...

What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclus...

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction...

I am very pleased you like my stories. They are studies in prose, put for Romance's sake into fancif...

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from ...

If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you...

When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've rea...

Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while somethin...

The problem with a lot of people who read only literary fiction is that they assume fantasy is just ...

Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your hous...

This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to s...

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking te...

Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when ...

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not s...

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have s...

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for ...

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a...

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poe...

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...