The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake.
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?
We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth.
Tag: fantasy-books
If you see the dragon fly,
best you drink the flagon dry.”
—Zarost
Tag: dragons drinking life-lessons fantasy-books fantasy-fiction
Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”
—Zarost
Tag: wisdom power greed fantasy-books fantasy-fiction
How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”—Zarost
Greg HamertonTag: life music fantasy-books fantasy-fiction zarost
If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
Patrick RothfussTag: inspirational writing fantasy fantasy-books
CPR dummy looked like him and had clearly been stabbed. Repeatedly. In the groin. He thought she might have used the dummy for target practice, and tried not to be offended. Key word: tried.
Gena ShowalterTag: humor funny fantasy-books
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People that are lazy don't get anything accomplished. It's People like me that are reliable.
Richard W. ToddTag: fantasy fantasy-books
I've been called many things in my time, but never a conduit of divinity- Cedric MacKinnon, My Fearful Symmetry
Denise VerricoTag: fantasy-books bisexual
I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination."
D'Molay the Freeman Tracker
Tag: mythology fantasy-books mystery-novels
There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters
Jon Courtenay GrimwoodTag: fantasy-books
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