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I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination. -- Vera Nazarian
There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way. -- Terri Windling
No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even Grimm's tales were written for adults. But it is true that ever since 'Harry Potter' there has been a renaissance in fantasy literature. J. K. Rowling opened the door again. -- Rick Riordan
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. -- Antonio Tabucchi
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. -- Lois Lowry
Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all. -- Robin Hobb
To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement. -- Gail Carriger
I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now. -- R. L. Stine
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on. -- R. A. Salvatore
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction. -- Joan D. Vinge
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. -- Christopher Hampton
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts. -- Paul Bloom
Fantasy is literature for teenagers. -- Brian Aldiss
I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to. -- Shane Warren Jones
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. -- Katharine Kerr
Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo. -- Vera Nazarian
They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy -- Jorge Luis Borges
I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it. -- Edmund White

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