Jane Lindskold Quotes

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

I'm not very good at writing fantasy or even reading it.

I think it's really hard to draw a hard-and-fast line and say 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' doesn't count as science fiction or fantasy. Or at what point do we say mythology is not fantasy, so reading mythology when you're young does not count as an exposure to fantasy?

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it. I've been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I'd read the Nancy Collins 'Sonja Blue' series years ago.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

'Grimm,' I think, is a unique show in a lot of ways. There is certainly nothing on TV that looks like 'Grimm'.

I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.

I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy.

I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or after-world in which it's impossible to buy a cup of coffee or take an undisturbed afternoon nap.

Beneath the Sugar Sky' is an homage to the portal fantasies of my childhood: it is the portal running in reverse.

Fantasy and science fiction are my comfort spot.

Writers of all things speculative have played in alternate and parallel worlds for a long time - everyone from Stephen King to Philip Pullman to Tanith Lee - and it's an obsession that likely isn't going away any time soon.

I'm particularly fond of sci-fi and fantasy genres.

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.

Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running around, and I'm pulling very heavily on my background as a folklore major and having done some animation work and all of that, and I'm pulling from the modern fairy tale narrative.