I’m not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. – Lynn Abbey
At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories. – Joshua Oppenheimer
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it’s the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part. – Jean M. Auel
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. – Manuel Puig
I try to live instinctively. And I guess I’ve always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. – James Duval
The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental. – Lyle Lovett
I like going back in time and writing historical fantasy. I use some real historical characters as a background to give depth to the fantasy. And I throw my fictional characters into the midst of this, and, so far, it has turned out interesting. – Judith Tarr
I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most… you could play with worlds more. – Jennifer Fallon
I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes. And I just, I kept it up, it was sort of fantasy, it was part soap opera. It was utterly dreadful, but that’s how I got hooked. – Jacqueline Carey
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. – Kevin J. Anderson
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better – as in the ‘Chronicles Of Narnia,’ ‘The Wizard Of Oz,’ ‘The Phantom Tollbooth,’ the ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ cartoon on Saturday morning in the ’80s. – Lev Grossman
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. – Lionel Trilling
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
With ‘Fantasy Factory,’ I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation. – Rob Dyrdek
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic. – Richard Eyre
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn’t take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there. – Piers Anthony
I love Urban Fantasy, even though I’m inevitably compared to ‘Supernatural,’ only a little more edgy. – Rob Thurman
Although it is a fantasy film, it’s as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth. – Orlando Bloom
The fantasy world, the ‘Game of Thrones’ world, the forgotten realms worlds – they’re the type of worlds I’ve always wanted to live in. Where vampires, dragons, dwarves and elves are real. – Robert Kazinsky
In real football, I wouldn’t want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you’re nuts if you don’t take him in fantasy. – Randy Cross
Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The ‘Lord of the Rings’ template or the ‘Gormenghast’ mold. – Paul Di Filippo
What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children’s or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy. – Robin McKinley
There’s a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing. – Sean Connery
I’ve always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats. – Padma Lakshmi
As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I’m involved with, for reasons that probably don’t need a lot of explanation. – Patrick Nielsen Hayden
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes. – Paolo Bacigalupi
