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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.
My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.
When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.
Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.
I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
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.
A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky.
Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.
I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.
Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.
When I was coming onto 'Thrones,' I was looking for, 'What's the formula here?' There was a very David Lean kind of approach to it. It was traditional, in a way, and it was naturalistic in some respects, even though it was fantasy.
Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn in, perhaps as something in me resists the epic, medieval-feeling fantasy.
Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.
I've done a lot of books with Asian antecedents to them - some of my fantasy novels have been that way, and certainly in the 'Battletech' universe, there's a lot of Asian culture in that.
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
I was always a sci-fi and fantasy geek. I was in the 'Lord of the Rings' club and all my cool friends made fun of me.
I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.
When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.
If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.
The vast majority of fantasy football fans, myself included, revel in the absurdity of it all.
Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.
'Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the characters don't seem totally photo-real, as amazing as they are.
I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.
It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.
Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.
In fantasy land, I wish I could be a pro golfer. I love golf - the most frustratingly brilliant game on the planet.
I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a child. I still have a soft spot for that one!
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
Daily fantasy sports operators claim that they operate legally under Alabama law. However, paid daily fantasy sports contests are, in fact, illegal gambling under Alabama law.
As a parent, my fantasy is to cook every meal, read every story, do everything, and also work all day. I'm overly hard on myself.
I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.'
My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
There was never a push for us to become more practical... Fantasy is what our audience has come to expect.
I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.
People often ask me if fantasy is about escapism, and I personally don't think it is.
Among immigrants today, it is increasingly fashionable to reject American exceptionalism in favor of multiculturalism. To pretend that this isn't happening isn't optimism; it's sheer fantasy.
A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.
As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.
When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.
Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.
My fantasy is to break up the big banks. I wish we would end 'too big to fail' in our banking system.
Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.
Yes, I enjoyed my share of fantasy fiction series and comics. Among superheroes, Spiderman was my favorite. I always had this fascination for costume-clad vigilante who would come and save the day!
Arsene Wenger has not just brought success to Arsenal. He is a very creative manager, producing almost fantasy football.
My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.
I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.
I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.
I'm not trying to make everything this fantasy world about how I'm living this lavish life that I'm not really living.
At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories.
You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.
I'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passionate about superheroes. And movies about vengeance. And all of that - the stuff that I grew up reading.
In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.
I'm a geek. I love SF and fantasy. I listen to metal. I follow the Oakland Raiders and the Orlando Magic.
Science fiction and fantasy feels like it's been ascending in the zeitgeist.
The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.
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