Fantasy Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it's not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss.

  Tad Williams

  Art, Humorous, Book

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• For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

  Frantz Fanon

  Reality, Helping, Beloved

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.44, Pluto Press

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• Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.

  James Kelman

  Stars, Reading, Emotional

  James Kelman (2012). “And the Judges Said&…: Essays”, p.56, Birlinn

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• To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Real, Book, Wonder

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels”, p.21, Faber & Faber

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• I'm a GM in fantasy basketball and I'm a GM on PlayStation, so on PlayStation I probably would have got a little more, but this is real life, so I don't know.

  Jalen Rose

  Basketball, Real, Littles

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• It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free but they are born into a system of subordination. We are not born into equality and do not have equality to eroticise. We are not born into power and do not have power to eroticise. We are born into subordination and it is in subordination that we learn our sexual and emotional responses. It would be surprising indeed if any woman reared under male supremacy was able to escape the forces constructing her into a member of an inferior slave class.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Sex, Emotional, Class

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• Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in fantasy fiction for young readers-you've found it!

  Robert Liparulo

  Law, Fiction, Stories

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• Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Glasses, Light

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• The people in Japan love jazz music, man, and also in Europe, far more than they ever did here. And that always puzzled me until I went over there to really get into it for myself and find out what it is. It's their tradition and culture, man. We've gotten away from that in America, man. We live in a country of complete fantasy.

  Milt Jackson

  Music, Country, Men

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• What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Idols, What If, Would Be

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• Now that I've relinquished my fantasies of all the people I wish I could be, and stopped feeling guilty about not going to the opera or pretending that I want to attend a foreign policy lecture, I have more time for the things that I truly enjoy.

  Gretchen Rubin

  People, Feelings, Wish

  "Find Time for Fun" by Gretchen Rubin, www.sfgate.com. June 29, 2011.

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• City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age.

  Leon Trotsky

  New York, Philosophy, Expression

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• The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
  The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal, Order, Knowing

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.

  David LaChapelle

  Wall, Tired, School

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• This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

  David Gemmell

  Real, Life Changing, Soul

  "No shades of grey" by David Gemmell, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

  Garet Garrett

  Ideas, World, Barbarians

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• Like this. The wristbands you get at nightclubs next to all the bracelets? It's always the details that give me the ideas. It's fun to play with fashion because it is a fantasy. Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Morning, Fun

  "Carine Roitfeld: 'I want to show fashion can be a nice world, if a bit crazy'". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2013.

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• Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.

  David Graeber

  Dream, Song, Sex

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• Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs to Japanese and German investors. The fear of getting into such a predicament is so strong today that fantasy often outstrips reality. The reality is that inequality with respect to capital is a far greater domestic issue than it is an international one.

  Thomas Piketty

  Strong, Reality, California

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• One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer.

  Philip Slater

  Reality, People, Giving

  Philip Elliot Slater (1980). “Wealth Addiction”, Dutton Adult

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