Fantasy Quotes - Page 29

• I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.

  Gerry Spence

  Death, Adventure, Superstitions

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.54, Macmillan

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• Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

  Dick Morris

  Caring, Media, Average

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.117, St. Martin's Press

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• Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

  Dale Murphy

  Baseball, Dream, Real

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• Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

  Wes Anderson

  Romantic, Years, Feelings

  "Wes Anderson: 'I don't think any of us are normal people'" by Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations - many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Wedding, Expectations, Rorschach

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• In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

  David Brin

  Selfish, Real, Book

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• Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Dream, Dark, Trying

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• I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Children, Writing, Doe

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• And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed. Just the way, even at that time fully two years after my mother's death, I'd catch myself thinking about her as alive; and would suddenly remember, an admonitory finger of grief upon my breast, that she was gone.

  Claire Messud

  Mother, Dream, Grief

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• TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Thinking, Might

  Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc

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• For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

  Chris Wedge

  Fascination, Immersion, Animation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Florida, Connections

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• When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

  Terri Windling

  Business, Adults, Fiction

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• Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Reading, Writing, Science

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• Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

  Terri Windling

  New York, Technology, Impact

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• I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted."Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love."

  Anne Rice

  Love, Hands, Together

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• Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

  James Russell Lowell

  Two, Flesh, Spirit

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”, p.264

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• It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Funny, Mom, Children

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• Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.

  Terrence McNally

  Writing, Play, Way

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• The psyche is highly flammable material. So we are always wrapping things in asbestos, keeping our images and fantasies at arm's length because they are so full of love

  James Hillman

  Asbestos, Arms, Length

  James Hillman, Laura Pozzo (1983). “Inter Views: Conversations With Laura Pozzp on Psychotherapy, Biography, Love, Soul, Dreams, Work, Imagination and the State of the Culture”, Harpercollins

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• Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Growing Up, Cost, Accomplished

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.132, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

  Orson Scott Card

  Differences, Tree, Fiction

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• Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Perfect, Cost, Way To Live

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

  Paul LePaul

  Imagination, Magic, Illusion

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• We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Real, World, Paranoid

  Richard Hofstadter (2016). “The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay: from The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, p.29, Vintage

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