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Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.

Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

That's a huge fear for middle-class women. It's not so much a fear for poor women, because poor women have always assumed that they are going to have to support themselves. It's middle-class women who have this fantasy that somebody else is going to support them.

Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.

The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.

That was the action figure I was playing with. I grew up having this fantasy of being a superhero, being Princess Power.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

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

The dream of reason produces monsters

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t let it—and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.

The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.

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

The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.

The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.