Fantasy Quotes - Page 8 of 28

• Ray Bradbury / Writer

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

• Sean Connery / Actor

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

• Christopher Lloyd

Time travel is a fantasy we all have. The 'Back to the Future' series really exploits that wish.

• Kris Holden-Ried

I always gravitated a bit towards more of the fantasy, and 'Lost Girl' really fits in with that.

• Antonio Tabucchi / Writer

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

• Brandon Sanderson / Writer

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

• Bryant H. Mcgill / Author

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

• Rob Lowe / Film Actor

It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment.

• Warren Farrell / Activist

A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

• Marc Bolan / Singer-Songwriter

I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!

• Austin Butler / Actor

When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.

• Gilbert K. Chesterton / Writer

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

• Gillian Jacobs / Film Actress

I'm a very boring person in my real life so I got to act out misbehaving fantasies was really fun.

• Elizabeth Bowen / Novelist

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

• Robin Hobb / Novelist

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

• Elizabeth Banks / Actress

I secretly harbor the fantasy of becoming an action star at any moment. I know I'd be great at it.

• Paul Lepaul

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

• Vera Nazarian / Writer

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

• Lily Collins / Film Actress

I've always loved fantasy books. Even just growing up, I've always kind of loved magic and fantasy.

• Alethea Kontis / Writer

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

• Jon Krakauer / Writer

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

• Mercedes Lackey / Author

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

• Mindy Kaling / Actress

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

• Neil Gaiman / Author

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

• James Duval

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.

• Peter Jackson / Film Director

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

• Carrie Vaughn / Author

I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.

• Erin Heatherton / Fashion Model

I don't think people should confuse fantasy and reality because no one is perfect - we all know that.

• Phoebe Snow / Singer-Songwriter

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

• Rod Serling / Screenwriter

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

• Stephenie Meyer / Writer

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

• Volkmar Sigusch

Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.

• Stephen R. Donaldson / Novelist

Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.

• Rob Thurman / Novelist

I love Urban Fantasy, even though I'm inevitably compared to 'Supernatural,' only a little more edgy.

• Erica Cerra

I love my sci-fi. I love my fantasy. Yeah! I can say it. I'm a geek. I'm a geek and I'm a proud geek!

• Donna Summer / Singer-Songwriter

I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.

• Mikhail Gorbachev / Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

• Elizabeth Moon / Writer

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

• Nathan Fillion / Actor

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

• R. A. Salvatore / Author

Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

• Paul Di Filippo / Writer

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

• Ben Stiller / Actor

I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."

• Jimmy Fallon / Television Host

Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.

• Roger Ebert / Film Critic

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

• David Mitchell / Novelist

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

• George R. R. Martin / Novelist

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

• Jesse Schell / Video Game Designer

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

• Lisa Kleypas / Author

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

• Porter Robinson

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.

• Alan Hansen / Soccer Player

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