#fantasy

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#being #cast #constrained #fantasy #genre

I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing. ↗

— Kate Moss

#create #dress-up #fantasy #home #i

I'm thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy. ↗

— Jessica Pare

#band #bit #definitely #fantasy #i

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#children #fact #fantasy #guides #i

He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being really annoyed at the depiction of Hickory Dickory Dock in a rag book of nursery rhymes because the clock in the drawing was completely wrong for the period. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#age

She didn't say it, I only thought she said it. So really it was my thought, my words, and not hers. How could I confuse "I love you" with "May I take your order? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cashier #confusion #daydreaming #delusional #fantasy

This place is alive," Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting. ↗

— Teresa Flavin

#fantasy #novel #art

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#creativity #fantasy #grotesque #irony #novel

Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul. ↗

— Ruth Frances Long

#fantasy #kisses #beauty

Someday I'd like to sail far away again. Think of how much of the world we've left to see!" But then he cocked his head. "Would you mind?" "Not as long as you took me with you." There was that beautiful smile. "Always. ↗

— Kim Fielding

#fantasy-romance #gay-romance #m-m-romance #romance #beauty