Hello everyone! Welcome to the first Writing Quote post. This is one of the many projects I wanted to try out this month. Every first Monday of the month, I’ll put up a list of quotes about writing, fantasy, science fiction, and more to inspire you all for the week. I hope you enjoy it!
1. “Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.” – Francisco Goya
2. “We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.” – Lynda Barry
3. “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . . If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!” – J. R. R. Tolkien
4. “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.” – George R. R. Martin
5. “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” – Lloyd Alexander
6. “When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.” – Laini Taylor
7. “I love fantasy; I love imagination – that’s the inner child in me.” – Hannah John-Kamen
8. “Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.” – Mason Cooley
9. “All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.” – Carl Jung
10. “There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.” – Guillermo del Toro
Thanks for enjoying these fantasy writing quotes! See you all next Saturday!
Do you have a favorite quote from a fantasy book? Tell me in the comments!
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