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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
Irvine Welsh
House
Moved
Acid
Realism
Urban
Fantasy
We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think there's a thinner line between fantasy and normality. People spend much more time in their own heads now. There's so much to conform to, so many influences coming at you.
Irvine Welsh
Time
You
People
Become
Own
Think
Spend
More
Part
Between
Heads
Narrative
Coming
Line
Normality
Influences
Conform
Processing
Fantasy
Much
Used
Theory
Many
Now
Images
Thinner
What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!
Isaac Mizrahi
Me
You
Would
Would-Be
Exactly
Allen
Divine
Said
Idol
Role
Forget
What If
Want
Movie
Woody
Woody Allen
Fantasy
Really
Working
I've always been an entertainer all my life; I come from a family of entertainers. I always made, very pretentiously, a comparison with Agatha Christie. Her inspiration was crime, and I'm sure she must have taken courses or read about crime, because it was the basis of her stories. But ultimately, it was her own fantasy.
Isabella Rossellini
Life
Family
Crime
Made
My Life
Own
All My Life
Must
Entertainer
Entertainers
About
Inspiration
Taken
Come
She
Read
Sure
Courses
Because
Always
Been
Ultimately
Very
Stories
Agatha Christie
Fantasy
Comparison
Her
Basis
I believe excellent fantasy reflects us all, and yes, it can use those myths that underpin societies, our subconscious yearnings and longings, and perhaps our barren spirituality.
Isobelle Carmody
Spirituality
Subconscious
Believe
Our
Those
Excellent
Myths
Perhaps
Yearnings
Yes
Reflects
Fantasy
Us
Use
Barren
Societies
If fantasy is done well, it has both serious content in a literary fashion and is a really good read as well - and children and young adults won't suffer anything else.
Isobelle Carmody
Good
Fashion
Young
Else
Both
Adult
Well
Read
Content
Done
Young Adults
Children
Literary
Anything
Anything Else
Fantasy
Really
Serious
Suffer
I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.
Izabella Scorupco
Men
Beast
Think
Able
Very
Fantasy
Much
Thing
The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
J. K. Rowling
You
About
Just
Fantasy
Certain
Certain Things
Thing
Things
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
J. K. Rowling
Science
Book
Half
Lying
Give
Hour
Read
Science Fiction
Got
Chick
Any
Lit
Fiction
Fantasy
Chance
To describe the world Michael Jackson has created around himself as a childhood fantasy isn't quite accurate. Thanks to wealth and celebrity, he has been able to live as a superannuated child. With the help of plastic surgery and dramatic affectation, he has made himself look and sound pre-pubescent.
Jacob Weisberg
World
Wealth
Made
Thanks
Live
Dramatic
Has-Been
Able
He
Look
Himself
Around
Sound
Surgery
Affectation
Been
Michael
Michael Jackson
Celebrity
Child
Accurate
Jackson
Quite
Childhood
Fantasy
Created
Help
Plastic
Describe
Plastic Surgery
I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes. And I just, I kept it up, it was sort of fantasy, it was part soap opera. It was utterly dreadful, but that's how I got hooked.
Jacqueline Carey
Great
Back
Hooked
Dreadful
Part
Taking
Like
Looked
Opera
Sort
Because
Got
How
Up
Just
Soap
Soap Opera
Notebook
Notes
Fantasy
Novel
Utterly
Started
Kept
When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it's such a profound part of the human experience that it's a really big thing to leave out.
Jacqueline Carey
Experience
Writing
Big
Out
One Of The Things
Sexuality
Absence
Part
Genre
Real
Leave
Human
Big Thing
Human Experience
Fantasy
Really
Noticed
Thing
Things
Profound
Started
I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.
Jacqueline de Ribes
Mother
Long
Beauty
Big
Too
Everything
Dreamed
Touched
Liked
Said
Ballerina
Very
Being
Sensitive
Fantasy
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.
James Cameron
Me
Science
Pure
Sense
Other
Worlds
Had
Environments
Read
Science Fiction
Escapism
Fiction
Fantasy
Fascinated
Tons
A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.
James Mangold
Reality
Kind
Some
Improved
Often
Human
Fantasy
Film
If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of Thrones,' it's nothing. But it is shocking because it's so real and grounded. The characters could live next door to you - they're not in a remote fantasy world.
James Norton
You
Game
Happy
World
Nothing
Live
Valley
Characters
Something
Could
Like
Remote
Because
Real
Shocking
Door
Fantasy
Fantasy World
Next
Next Door
Game Of Thrones
Grounded
Compare
Violence
I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the way I want to hear a story. I find it more rewarding to write for kids, but I also find it a little easier, because you can just let loose a little bit more in terms of fantasy and stuff.
James Patterson
You
Way
Bit
Easier
Kids
Tell
Find
Bore
More
Write
Stuff
Along
Know
Terms
Also
Because
Stick
Loose
Always
Hear
Been
Just
Rewarding
Want
Story
Little
Moving
Little Bit
Fantasy
Keep
Fast-Paced
Being in a band is not about reality - it's a bit of a fantasy. I can't go on stage as my ordinary self and just play - I've got to become my 'superhuman self.'
Jamie Hince
Reality
Become
Band
Stage
Bit
About
Superhuman
Self
Got
Go
Just
Being
Ordinary
Fantasy
Play
Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend towards a classy, black Goth look. I love black, a few sparkles, false eyelashes and boots. But when I perform, I love fantasy and props.
Jane Badler
Life
Love
Fashion
Videos
Black
Real Life
Few
Stage
Saved
Boots
Eyelashes
Classy
Tend
Props
Perform
Towards
Look
Most
Goth
Real
False
Avant-Garde
Fantasy
There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.
Jane Campion
Future
People
World
Enjoy
Difficult
Think
Imagination
Way
Bad
Dream
Poem
Redeem
Surprised
Lot
Reviews
Artist
Story
Apart
Them
Fantasy
Really
Keats
Now
Pulled
I've always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of what looks nice, which definitely isn't everyone else's.
Jane Goldman
Science
Degree
Nice
Else
Guess
Everyone
Books
Those
Definitely
Some
Idea
Looks
Science Fiction
Always
Comic
Comic Books
Personal
Influence
Manga
Fiction
Loved
Which
Fantasy
Things
When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'
Jane Lindskold
Science
Reality
Writing
Setting
Stretching
Must
Writer
Excessive
Bounds
Science Fiction
Within
Makes
Real
Fiction
Fictional
Fantasy
Realize
Creating
Less
Coincidence
The sad thing is that, for many writers of fantasy fiction, the inclusion of magic seems to mean that logical ramifications and real-world laws both go out the window.
Jane Lindskold
Sad
Logical
Ramifications
Out
Magic
Window
Seems
Laws
Both
Writers
Sad Thing
Go
Fiction
Mean
Fantasy
Many
Inclusion
Thing
When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!
Jane Yolen
Best
You
Fans
Moon
Picture
Devil
Sense
Think
Too
Books
Out
Find
Dinosaur
Only
Poetry
Write
Prose
Arithmetic
Picture Books
Stunned
Make
How
Selling
Owl
Fanatics
Public
Fantasy
Realize
Who
While the whole 'God Butcher Saga' had elements of fantasy, sci-fi and horror all mixed together, 'The Accursed' is very much high-fantasy. Right out of the gate, we've got elves, talk of fantastic worlds, strange creatures, Malekith riding a flying tiger, as well as more dwarves, giants, trolls and elves than you can possibly count.
Jason Aaron
God
You
Together
Strange
Worlds
Elves
Flying
Giants
Out
Possibly
Horror
More
Count
Had
Talk
Well
Sci-Fi
Tiger
Saga
Got
Mixed
Very
Than
Accursed
While
Fantastic
Fantasy
Much
Whole
Riding
Elements
Creatures
Butcher
Right
Gate
As someone who has been playing 'Final Fantasy' since before I could walk on two legs, I was particularly disgusted by 'Final Fantasy XIII-2''s soundtrack.
Jason Schreier
Walk
Before
Final
Has-Been
Someone
Could
Since
Particularly
Soundtrack
Been
Disgusted
Legs
Fantasy
Who
Playing
Two
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