Fantastic Quotes

When we are no longer children we are already dead

There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they mus...

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the ev...

A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present;...

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sen...

The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outsi...

An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best ...

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creatu...

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among s...

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to u...

The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only t...

We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, str...

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.