Fantasy Writing Quotes
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Fantasy Writing Quotes & Sayings
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There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
— Diane Duane
Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.
— Marie Brennan
I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.
— Erica Sehyun Song
I could have drowned today. If they hadn't been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn't woken up, I would have drowned.
— Erica Sehyun Song
I closed my eyes and dived into foreign water.
— Erica Sehyun Song
If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted.
— John DeChancie
I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.
— Blaise Cendrars
Err on the side of awesome.
— Brandon Sanderson
I like to make blank pages darker. It's this thing I do.
— Rob E. Boley
And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.
— Benjamin Kane Ethridge
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
Science Fiction has always attracted more talented writers than it could reward adequately.
— Walter M. Miller Jr.
I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written.
— Piroska Rodriguez
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
— Stephen Malkmus
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
— Jon Krakauer
You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike
— Robert Galbraith
I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.
— Sarah Dessen
To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.
— Terry A. O'Neal
Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can't MANHANDLE THEM!
— Erica Sehyun Song
She snorted in amusement at my remark. "When are the guards going to start to notice?"Keith peered into the distance. "Starting now, — Erica Sehyun Song
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.
— Nicholas Sparks
My feeling is that writing Fantasy should be harder - not easier - than writing any other kind of fiction.
— Jane Lindskold
she is born in the breath of a cloud
— Patrick Ness
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
— Piers Anthony
When writing fantasynovels, one must be careful what one
invents. For every benefit, there is
usually a drawback. — J.K. Rowling
I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
We want to fight.""And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that's never going to happen," I said blithely. — Laura Kreitzer
All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.
— Charles Beaumont
Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.
— Janey Colbourne
Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships ...
— Margaret Atwood
A writer's role was never just to tell stories, but to create a world to encompass and share with others.
— Solange Nicole
Fancies are like shadows ... you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
— L.M. Montgomery
Writing YA fantasy books is like sneaking out after dark, falling down the rabbit hole and ending up in the most exciting world... ever!
— Carolyn Hockley
Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?
— F.K. Preston
Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn't going to stop us from being together.
— Erica Sehyun Song
If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
— Nathan Fillion
Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with.
— Tracy Cooper-Posey
Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed.
— F.K. Preston
I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.
— Erica Sehyun Song
The best fantasy writer are the ones that stopped fighting with their inner demons, and started writing about them.
— Solomon Woytowich
Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.
— Annalee Newitz
Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.
— Robert Galbraith
Learning voyage, the greatest adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.
— Neil Gaiman
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
— Lynn Flewelling
Half of what I write is imaginative reality. The other half is realized impossibilities. Blended into one, these make a fantasy.
— Nicole Sager
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
— Manuel Puig
All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.
— Michelle Franklin
I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results.
— Kia Carrington-Russell
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.
— Raymond E. Feist
It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.
— Brandon Mull
I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control.
— C.S. Woolley
Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.
— Patricia Fuller
If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
— Brett Armstrong
I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.
— Robin Hobb
All fiction is based on fact and moves into fantasy. It is the writer's task to make the unbelievable believable.
— Chloe Thurlow
Writing is my dream. From romance to dragons; fairies to fantasy worlds, this is where I live and play. Thanks be to God!
— Lisa Hannah Wells
I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
— Paul Gauguin
As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.
— Michelle M. Pillow
I was always taught to write the book you want to read. It's a philosophy I haven't wavered from since.
— E.A. De Graaf
I could have drowned ... and my brother didn't even care.
— Erica Sehyun Song
Fantasy is an excellent platform to shine new lights on old truths.
— James D. Maxon
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
— China Mieville
I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.
— Cassandra Clare
I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she is clueless about the Guardianee?
— Erica Sehyun Song
Come now, I was not about to let that thing eat you.
— Stacy Buck
