Ralph Ellison Quotes

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I make it all up, and all of it is true.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I've always found exciting - the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships.

To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

I love, love, love fantasy, like 'Lord of the Rings' and things like that.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

The best fantasy does not offer an answer to our lives, it is an offering that acknowledges enough of the truth to resonate and add to the understanding about the human condition.

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.