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"We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable degree. We have this fantasy that we are free of history. This allows us not to see the circumstances, the historical circumstances of other people."
"The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism."
"The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy."
"Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent."
"To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?"
"Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility"
"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?"
"I think what I'm doing is quintessentially American because I'm not American - even though I am on the verge of getting my American passport next week - I have a fantasy of what is American. Big spaces, Marlon Brando, James Dean, easy living."
"Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives."
"Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction."
"Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre."
"There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies."
"I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me."
"A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy."
"The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance."
"My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular."
"He kissed her as though he were starved for her. Like he'd been held away from her and had finally broken free. It was the kind of kiss that lived only in her fantasies. No one had ever made her feel so..consumed."
"I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up."
"I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me."
"I can’t run around falling in love with fantasies."
