Fantasy Books quotes:

Send

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. -- Elizabeth Moon
Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do. -- Tamora Pierce
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. -- George R. R. Martin
I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books. -- Siri Hustvedt
Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy. -- Lloyd Alexander
I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough. -- Nathan Fillion
I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies. -- Jim C. Hines
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. -- Umberto Eco
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still. -- Zadie Smith
When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction. -- Brandon Sanderson
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right. -- John Banville
It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books. -- David S. Goyer
The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about. -- G. Willow Wilson
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds. -- David S. Goyer
For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena. -- James Patterson
As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy. -- Gail Carriger
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful. -- Patricia Briggs
A lot of people have read the Mira Grant books who are not urban fantasy readers, and they would never have picked up a book with an urban fantasist's name on the cover, but then they go on to read my urban fantasy and like it. -- Seanan McGuire
A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged? -- Jane Yolen
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books. -- Jon Scieszka
I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me. -- Dario Argento
When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too! -- Jane Yolen
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it. -- Jonathan Stroud
The world of books is my fantasy. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations. -- Michelle M. Pillow
Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels like such a fantasy. -- Joe Meno
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life. -- Maureen Corrigan
I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies. -- Donita K. Paul
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life. -- Maureen Corrigan
I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff. -- Jesse L. Martin
So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum. -- Karen Russell

Send