“ It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said,… Francesca Lia Block
“ Inevitably, his vision verged toward the fantastic; he published a scattering of stories - most included in this volume - which appeared to conform to that genre at least to the degree that the fuller… Barry N. Malzberg
“ But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined. Charles Nodier
“ A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, ce… H.P. Lovecraft
“ Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. G.K. Chesterton
“ In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. Arthur Rimbaud
“ Henry,' at last said one, again dipping the spoon into the flaming spirit, 'hast thou read Hoffman?''I should think so,' said Henry.'What think you of him?''Why, that he writes admirably; and, moreove… James Hain Friswell
“ The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes sha… Michel Foucault
“ (Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world… Vladimir Odoyevsky
“ I'm an alien and I came to this planet in order to change humanity but, unfortunately, your brain is not yet in a position to take it Arthur Tomaszewicz
“ Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. James Joyce
“ The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all h… Lars Gustafsson
“ You want to do something very simple but also very fantastic? Then sit under the rain! Not long after, yourself will leave you and there will remain only the rain! Mehmet Murat ildan
“ Come! our world is done:For all the witchery of the world is fled,And lost all wanton wisdom long since won. Lionel Pigot Johnson
“ A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of… H.P. Lovecraft
“ Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe. Michael Richardson
“ We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils. Arthur Machen
“ If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me.All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It’s not up to the doctors. It’s not up to the absentee angels. It’s not even up to God who, if… Gayle Forman
