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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

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies. — Anne Frank

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society. — Marie Brennan

There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true. — F.K. Preston

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

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased. — F.K. Preston

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

Even in the hottest fire there's a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic. — Ivan Stoikov

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession. — Philip Larkin

I'm a blank canvas that I can paint however I desire. For the first time ever, I get to be the character in my own fantasy land. — E.K. Blair

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

One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces. — Ivan Stoikov

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

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience. — F.K. Preston

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

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. — Anthony Powell

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching. — Terry A. O'Neal

I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, 'It's already being written; through my books. — T.S. Wieland

Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can't MANHANDLE THEM! — Erica Sehyun Song

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works. — Tad Williams

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

I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre. — Don Roff

she is born in the breath of a cloud — Patrick Ness

Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram
it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar. — Anne Lamott

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 fantasy
novels, 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

I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn't the point. — Joanna Penn

We spent 10 years writing our first fiction story and truly hope people like it. — Tony D'Urso

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

I'm 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy. — Almney King

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

My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane. — F.K. Preston

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

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King

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

Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose. — Richard Bowes

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

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

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

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan. — Brook Tesla

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

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere. — Don Roff

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 hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. — Lloyd Alexander

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

Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work! — Delia J. Colvin

I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a journey to another world. — K.M. Randall