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I am really very grateful for this Award. It is one of the first given to a woman, and to two women at that. When I first started getting work published, I used to have wistful thoughts at the way all important awards were given to men. Women, I used to think, could be as innovative, imaginative and productive as possible - and women were the ones mostly at work in the field of fantasy for children and young adults - but only let a man enter the field, and people instantly regarded what he had to say and what he did as more Important. He got respectful reviews as well as awards, even if what he was doing - which it often was - was imitating the women. But you have changed all that.
Thank you for being so enlightened.
Women, large-minded, formidable women, have played an almost exclusive part in helping my career. I have hardly ever dealt with a man - at least, when it came to publishing: ~ Diana Wynne Jones
Fantasy Writing quotes by Diana Wynne Jones
We humans are the only creatures on the planet capable of articulating worlds which are contrary, even in the most minor way, to reality. Every story, I think, begins there. With a dream. A fantasy. ~ L.M. Halloran
Fantasy Writing quotes by L.M. Halloran
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing. ~ Lynn Flewelling
Fantasy Writing quotes by Lynn Flewelling
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can. ~ M. John Harrison
Fantasy Writing quotes by M. John Harrison
From the beginning, I did not intend to create a typical classic fantasy. I wanted an organic, harmonious world where my story could evolve. If this world needed gnomes, I put them in there. As for drevalyankas, pikshas, bolugs and other totally original creatures, they appeared there somehow by themselves in the course of events, and then just began "to get under the feet of the main heroes" ... ~ Irina Lopatina
Fantasy Writing quotes by Irina Lopatina
Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum. ~ Tom Stoppard
Fantasy Writing quotes by Tom Stoppard
Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. With lovely prose that brings vivid life to her characters, she creates a universe with people we care about. This is an author with a gift for fantasy. ~ Catherine Asaro
Fantasy Writing quotes by Catherine Asaro
There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. ~ Washington Irving
Fantasy Writing quotes by Washington Irving
Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with. ~ Tracy Cooper-Posey
Fantasy Writing quotes by Tracy Cooper-Posey
Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing. ~ Robert Galbraith
Fantasy Writing quotes by Robert Galbraith
After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to set any event down in print is immediately to begin to lie about it, thank goodness; and that it's no less absurd and presumptuous to try on the skin of a bank teller than that of a Bigfoot or a dragon. ~ Peter S. Beagle
Fantasy Writing quotes by Peter S. Beagle
Writing fantasy is like opening a door onto millions of people's dreams that they never knew they were having. ~ Michael Timmins
Fantasy Writing quotes by Michael Timmins
There's something terribly weird about the standard fantasy setting
not least of which the fact the phrase "standard fantasy setting" can be uttered without irony. ~ Yahtzee Croshaw
Fantasy Writing quotes by Yahtzee Croshaw
Fantasy writing must be grounded in both truth and life experience if it is to work. It can be as inventive and creative as the writer can make it, a whirlwind of images and plot twists, but it cannot be built on a foundation of air. The world must be identifiable with our own, must offer us a frame of reference we can recognize."
"Fantasy stories work because the writer has interwoven bits and pieces of reality with imagination to form a personal vision. ~ Terry Brooks
Fantasy Writing quotes by Terry Brooks
I like to make blank pages darker. It's this thing I do. ~ Rob E. Boley
Fantasy Writing quotes by Rob E. Boley
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own. ~ Terry Brooks
Fantasy Writing quotes by Terry Brooks
And I wanted to do a movie [Moonrise Kingdom] about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it's like to just be blindsided, when you're in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings. Along the way, I sort of mixed in some interest in "young adult fantasy" writing. ~ Wes Anderson
Fantasy Writing quotes by Wes Anderson
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me. ~ Dorothy Parker
Fantasy Writing quotes by Dorothy Parker
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas. ~ Flannery O'Connor
Fantasy Writing quotes by Flannery O'Connor
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate. ~ Mark Leyner
Fantasy Writing quotes by Mark Leyner
I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting. ~ Evangeline Lilly
Fantasy Writing quotes by Evangeline Lilly
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. ~ Victor Hugo
Fantasy Writing quotes by Victor Hugo
The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can see into the heart of all your characters. Usually, when there's a writing problem, it's because you aren't doing that. ~ Peter Gould
Fantasy Writing quotes by Peter Gould
By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy ~ N. T. Wright
Fantasy Writing quotes by N. T. Wright
I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago. ~ Amanda Hocking
Fantasy Writing quotes by Amanda Hocking
The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back. ~ Maggie Smith
Fantasy Writing quotes by Maggie Smith
Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day. ~ Daphne Guinness
Fantasy Writing quotes by Daphne Guinness
I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women. ~ Whitney Cummings
Fantasy Writing quotes by Whitney Cummings
You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting. ~ Peter Turchi
Fantasy Writing quotes by Peter Turchi
I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium. ~ Stephen Vincent Benet
Fantasy Writing quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet
Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity. ~ James Lee Burke
Fantasy Writing quotes by James Lee Burke
A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality. ~ Thomas Moore
Fantasy Writing quotes by Thomas Moore
I remember learning to drive on my dad's lap. Did you guys ever do that? He'd work the brakes. I'd work the wheel. Then I went to take the driver's test and sat on the examiner's lap. I failed the exam. But he still writes to me. That's the really nice part. ~ Garry Shandling
Fantasy Writing quotes by Garry Shandling
She might be a natural-born cynic, but she knew the right word when she heard it. ~ Kate DiCamillo
Fantasy Writing quotes by Kate DiCamillo
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. ~ Thomas Perry
Fantasy Writing quotes by Thomas Perry
To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write. ~ M.F. Moonzajer
Fantasy Writing quotes by M.F. Moonzajer
The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark of the will o'the wisp, the Jack o'lantern, the ignis fatuus [foolish fire] beloved of poets, which lights up one source of history and then another, zigzagging across the marsh, connecting and linking and writing bright words across the dark face of the present. There's no phrase I can come up that will encapsulate in a winning sound-bite why history matters. We know that history matters, we know that it is thrilling, absorbing, fascinating, delightful and infuriating, that it is life. Yet I can't help wondering if it's a bit like being a Wagnerite; you just have to get used to the fact that some people are never going to listen. ~ Stephen Fry
Fantasy Writing quotes by Stephen Fry
Writing is dreaming with your eyes open - and your heart on fire. ~ Don Roff
Fantasy Writing quotes by Don Roff
In my life I haven't done anything worth writing about, but that's OK. That's why I write fiction. ~ Jarod Kintz
Fantasy Writing quotes by Jarod Kintz
If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. ~ Anne Rice
Fantasy Writing quotes by Anne Rice
When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block. ~ Ruskin Bond
Fantasy Writing quotes by Ruskin Bond
For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered okayness in my ear. I didn't speak it, to anyone. ~ Markus Zusak
Fantasy Writing quotes by Markus Zusak
Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important. ~ Joan Silber
Fantasy Writing quotes by Joan Silber
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me. ~ Chuck Klosterman
Fantasy Writing quotes by Chuck Klosterman
When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing and books have held special places in my heart all my life. ~ Mike Greenberg
Fantasy Writing quotes by Mike Greenberg
I looked up from my writing,
And gave a start to see,
As if rapt in my inditing,
The moon's full gaze on me. ~ Thomas Hardy
Fantasy Writing quotes by Thomas Hardy
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had. ~ Barry Hannah
Fantasy Writing quotes by Barry Hannah
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