All Quotes

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.
‐‐ Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

Fans will come if you have a good product.
‐‐ Steve Alford

Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
‐‐ Charley Pride

Fans will treat something preciously if they're given the opportunity to do so.
‐‐ Zachary Levi

Fans write to us via our publisher and more than ever via the Internet, blogs and fan sites, and good writers should be actively seeking out that interaction. Gone are the days when writers are dead or hidden away in dusty attics; nowadays, you've got to get out there.
‐‐ Chris Riddell

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
‐‐ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so lesion-spangled with new cancer that they should be embracing as much life as they can. Time's a-wasting, go out and have yourself a fantastic day! Fantastic days are for goners.
‐‐ David Rakoff

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
‐‐ China Mieville

Fantastic, I am very happy to be the fastest 800 metres runner in the world.
‐‐ David Rudisha

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!
‐‐ John Hughes

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
‐‐ Matthew Prior

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
‐‐ Jonathan Lethem

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
‐‐ Francisco Goya

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.
‐‐ Terry Goodkind

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.
‐‐ Marie Lu

Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.
‐‐ Daphne Guinness

Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.
‐‐ Steven Weber

Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.
‐‐ Matthew Reilly

Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.'
‐‐ Robin Hobb

Fantasy fans are incredibly loyal and passionate. Other people don't want to be seen as passionate about things, they want to be cool and laconic. The great thing about fantasy fans is they'll really get behind a show.
‐‐ John Bradley-West

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.
‐‐ Jay Mohr

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.
‐‐ Diana Wynne Jones

Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.
‐‐ Graham Joyce

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien

Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?'
‐‐ Brandon Sanderson

Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.
‐‐ Philip Treacy

Fantasy is a demanding genre.
‐‐ Tony Bradman

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
‐‐ Dr. Seuss

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.
‐‐ Robert Jordan

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

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

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.
‐‐ Guy Gavriel Kay

Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.
‐‐ Patrick Rothfuss

Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.
‐‐ Robin Hobb

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Catherynne M. Valente

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.
‐‐ Sarah Zettel

Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
‐‐ D. B. Weiss

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
‐‐ Terry Brooks

Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.
‐‐ Michael Oren

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.
‐‐ Octavia Butler

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

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.
‐‐ Tim Walker

Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
‐‐ Nancy Friday

Fantasy love is much better than reality love.
‐‐ Andy Warhol

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
‐‐ Brian K. Vaughan