When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.
My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.
My biggest fantasy was to have a pie thrown in my face, and I always said whoever did that, that's the guy I'd marry.
Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing.
I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.
I don't get wrapped up in catches and fantasy football. It's not the way I view the tight end position.
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.
No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
There was never a push for us to become more practical... Fantasy is what our audience has come to expect.
My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?'
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.
Owning the Eagles is the ultimate fulfillment of every fantasy I ever had growing up in Philadelphia.
I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.
For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.
The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.
Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.
I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.
We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.
I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.
When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.
When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
To be honest, if I was going to have any kind of fantasy, be it left-wing or otherwise, it wouldn't involve Margaret Thatcher.
I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits.
It was the first time I realized that absolute reality could be so much more fun than fantasy.
I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.
Republicans and nerds have so much in common -- they both live in fantasy worlds and have no idea how to relate to women.
We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.
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 like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.
My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.
It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.
I always try to have my supernatural or fantasy elements feel grounded in reality so they're easier for the reader to accept and digest.
Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
I grew up in a bit of a feminist fantasy with a single mom. I was totally shielded, in a way, from an idea that I couldn't do something.
I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.
I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.
I love that in celebrating Halloween, we can get lost in the magic of make-believe and fantasy no matter what age we are!
I spent my childhood all over the country. In certain parts where I grew up, films were this fantasy world.
I sort of had that fantasy of being one of the muses of Paris and hanging out with Toulouse Lautrec and Picasso.
It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.
When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.
Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.
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