Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds. – Scott Ian
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
Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience’s hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy. – Virginia Postrel
I’m a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there’s very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in ‘I Shall Wear Midnight,’ which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they’re practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don’t fall off. And you try not to use them too often. – Terry Pratchett
Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it’s beginning to stretch its range as well. – Sarah Zettel
I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves. – Samantha Shannon
I’ve spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that’s only the starting point. – Steven Erikson
If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I’ve done my superhero gig. – Todd McFarlane
I’ve always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons… I was always drawn to those types of stories. – Sarah J. Maas
The culture of celebrity has become insane. It’s all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing. – Sophia Myles
If your characters are two-dimensional and your plot uncompelling, it won’t matter how incredibly detailed and believable your fantasy world might be. – Tony Bradman
I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I’m afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there. – Samantha Shannon
I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded. – Tori Amos
It wasn’t until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn’t have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy. – Terence Stamp
I mean, I don’t know anything else that I would try to do, but it’s a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what’s a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people. – Sydney Pollack
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That’s where the old stuff came from. – Terri Windling
Ray Bradbury’s connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan. – Sam Weller
They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don’t remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real. – Sparky Anderson
I’m mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. – Sarah Zettel
My biggest fantasy was to have a pie thrown in my face, and I always said whoever did that, that’s the guy I’d marry. – Sarah Shahi
Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It’s pretty twee, but I adore it. I’ve been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I’d read the Nancy Collins ‘Sonja Blue’ series years ago. – Ted Naifeh
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. – Umberto Eco
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. – Walt Disney
When I was thirteen years old, I didn’t exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism. – Tansy Rayner Roberts
