Quotes of: Fantasy-world Keyword

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

Suzanne Vega

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Anita Desai

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Walt Disney

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

Jerry Saltz

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Elizabeth Moon

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

Jean M. Auel

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Sarah Zettel

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

Melissa Pritchard

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

Peggy Lipton

There's a kind of dream that movies sell to people: You can start as the lowliest person and rise to the top. 'Hit Me' doesn't sell this fantasy.

Steven Shainberg

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!

Abhijit Kar Gupta

love an invisible force that makes you realize that reality is better than fantasy.

Aonymous girl

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

Alan Hansen

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

Christopher Darden

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

Alexander Wang

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were ma...

Naomi Wolf

Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it has often accompanied or predicted change, and served to shake up rational Complacency, challenging reason a...

The Fantasy Book: An Illustrated History From Dracula To Tolkien

You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political. Otherwise, it goes into the realm of fantasy. So like, if you write about a woman in America in 1910, if you don’t write that ...

Walter Mosley

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

Geeky-Girly Innovation: A Japanese Subculturalist's Guide to Technology and Design

A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant

The Bone Clocks