25.) “Fiction is an improvement on life.”

-Charles Bukowski

26.) “As unrealistic as fairy tales always are, if there wasn’t a reality that we could translate into our own fantasy, in our own life, it would be boring. The interest is only because of a potential reality.”

-Jan Harlan

27.) “There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.”

-Diane Duane

28.) “Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.”

-Mason Cooley

29.) “All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.”

-Max Beerbohm

30.) “I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.”

-Jeri Ryan

31.) “It is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.”

-Maurice Sendak

32.) “We are lucky that our fantasy is for the picking. We can go back in time, stand still, or go forward.”

-Lida van Bers

33.) “I’ve always said fantasy is sort of stealth philosophy.”

-Terry Goodkind

34.) “Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own ‘real’ world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.”

-Leonard S. Marcus, The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy

35.) “I am going to go into this world, and I don’t care if you and your narrow mind cannot be a part of it.”

-Elisa Kova, Air Awakens

36.) “Into the sky to win or die.”

-Christopher Paolini, Eragon