I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike
Come over here and taste me,” he says, his voice little but a seductive whisper.
We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.
The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
'Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the characters don't seem totally photo-real, as amazing as they are.
Man was big enough to kill himself, thanks. No gods need apply.
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.
It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.
Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It's beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.
She still craved the fantasy while reality was busy sinking in its sharp teeth.
You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.
Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.
My biggest fantasy was to have a pie thrown in my face, and I always said whoever did that, that's the guy I'd marry.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
