Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.
But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it.
I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy.
All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.
I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.
Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.
The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.
Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
I've always been curious about the other worlds we can shift into in our imaginations.
When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass.
I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.
She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.
The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories
I like fantasy. I like worlds where sometimes you need the special effects to make it come alive, but it's not so fun acting it.
All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.
Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.
