"I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy."
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"People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there."
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"Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it."
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"Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse."
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"Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context."
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"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."
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"But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it."
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"When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away."
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"If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies."
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"All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it."
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"He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days."
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"Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever."
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"But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary."
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"Fantasy allows you to get past defenses."
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"Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble."
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"Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen."
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"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about."
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"But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical."
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"And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy."
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"I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian."
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