fictional realm Quotes

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.

I want to live in Middle-earth, actually.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist.

Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed understanding of it and zest for it because of their excursions into a purely imaginary realm.

Everything about 'Adventure Time' is the purest form of kid's play. A kid does not live in the Land of Ooo. That is one of the wonderful things about the show; it doesn't pretend to be real. That was the great thing about 'Pee Wee's Playhouse'; it existed in a world completely outside any reality a kid recognized.

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

Despite its challenges, the novel offers an opportunity to live in one story for years of your imaginative life. There's a tremendous richness to that.

When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's a different story. In my fiction I am more reckless. I don't care about the real world until I am done with the book.

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.