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When I was a teenager, what I most wanted to read were fantasy novels. Not Tolkien and Malory, but sword-and-sorcery pulp. I craved glowy blue magic, chainmail bikinis, dragons with unpronounceable names.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Blue Dragons Fantasy Magic Most Most Wanted Names Novels Pulp Read Teenager Tolkien Wanted Were

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I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

~Elisabeth Shue

Topics: Because Becoming Day Fantasy Involved Most One Day People Some Teacher Teenagers Time Vulnerable Want Way Young Young People

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I secretly harbor the fantasy of becoming an action star at any moment. I know I'd be great at it.

~Elizabeth Banks

Topics: Action Any Becoming Fantasy Great Harbor Know Moment Secretly Star

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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

~Elizabeth Bowen

Topics: Both Brain Cruelty Fantasy Heated Private Start Toxic War World World War

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Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'

~Elizabeth Mcgovern

Topics: Always Anything Citizen Doing Fantasy Next Whenever Work

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I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: Astronomy Biomedical Fantasy Love Much Really Science Setting Those You I Love

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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: Being Books Character Fantasy Few Fiction Main Main Character Old Person Relatively Science Science Fiction

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But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: Break Complete Confront Confronted Fantasy Make People Put Real Real World Situation The Real World Things Where World Would You

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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

~Elizabeth Moon

Topics: Again Against Also Because Certain Encountered Explicit Fantasy Get Life Make Past People Problems Real Real Life Set Social Social Problems Up Which Would You

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Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot.

~Ellen Datlow

Topics: Dark Difference Fantasy Feels Finding Horror Instinct Lot Me Overlap

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