We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Votes: 6
Iris MurdochThe gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Votes: 5
Albert EinsteinI like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. Votes: 5
Dr. SeussFantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo. Votes: 5
Vera NazarianFantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality. Votes: 3
Ursula K. Le GuinFantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable. Votes: 3
Walter WangerinFantasy. Lunacy.All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities. Votes: 3
David MitchellFantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. Votes: 3
Rod SerlingFantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. Votes: 3
Rod SterlingFantasy and anger totally destroy the human body. Tolerance is the greatest human asset. Votes: 3
Harbhajan Singh YogiFantasy for the most part is really just reality reflected through a storybook lens. Votes: 3
Michelle FranklinFantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with Votes: 3
Peter JacksonFantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Votes: 3
George R. R. MartinFantasy Is Not Reality, it is unrealistic to expect your future mate to match your fantasies. Votes: 3
Pamela CumminsI'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy. Votes: 3
Lester BowieOf the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. Votes: 3
Jean M. AuelFantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death. Votes: 3
Terry PratchettFantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well. Votes: 3
Sarah ZettelThings were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged. Votes: 3
Stephen KingI define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Votes: 3
Ray BradburyFantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. Votes: 3
Katharine KerrFantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context. Votes: 3
Woody AllenFantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings. Votes: 3
Eudora WeltyFantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go. Votes: 3
Karl LagerfeldFantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. Votes: 3
Elizabeth BowenFantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life. Votes: 3
Catherynne M. ValenteIf one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. Votes: 2
Maya AngelouAmbition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy. Votes: 2
Bryant H. McGillI try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy. Votes: 2
Jennifer ConnellyScience fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.
Orson Scott CardWhen a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
Stephen MalkmusThe Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.
Charles StrossI'm more of a fantasy kind of person. I like movies. My favorite movie is 'Kick Ass.'
Maksim ChmerkovskiyI think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.
Shane Warren JonesThings have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility
Karl LagerfeldI think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.
Izabella ScorupcoI love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
Lev GrossmanIt's better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.
Michael HyattI always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.
Nick WillingI think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.
Grant BowlerVenice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.
Peggy GuggenheimA love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
Amy HempelEven jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
Anna Deavere SmithCreating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
Joseph BarberaI played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.
Lana ParrillaThe fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
Ai WeiweiEvery religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.
Isaac AsimovIn a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity â disease and fantasy.
Peter J. CarrollIve got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.
David EinhornYou'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.
Jenny HanThe goal of all your hard work should be to make your reality everyone else's fantasy land.
Martyn RooneyWe need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.
Oscar NiemeyerHow much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
Alan Dean FosterWhy are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?
Anthony Michael HallMy fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.
Cathy O'NeilDo you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.
Jim ButcherFashion is magical, a fantasy. It's madness, and it doesn't last. It's changing all the time.
Carolina HerreraIf you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
David GemmellUnfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.
George R. R. MartinOne fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me
Lisa KudrowMy love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.
Peggy LiptonPhotographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
Salvador DaliWhen a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
Stewart BrandIt was the first time I realized that absolute reality could be so much more fun than fantasy.
Lindsay LohanTruth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.
Bernard SchubertPlaying with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
George MichaelSuperstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.
Joy BrowneOnce confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.
Michio KakuMen live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there
Scott AdamsMe, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.
Jodi PicoultI've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
Padma LakshmiI'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
Paul GauguinI am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.
Ray BradburyThere's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.
Sean ConneryLong live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
Wendell BerryThis is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
Brandon SandersonIt's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment.
Rob LoweWhen you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.
Austin ButlerA great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
Gilbert K. ChestertonScience fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.
Robert ReedI lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.
Courtney LoveThe illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.
Paul LePaulTrue, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
William Shakespeare... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.
Mercedes LackeyA fantasy of mine is to have an orgy with about six young college guys ranging from 18 to 22 in age.
Ted Haggard