Advice On Fantasy Quotes & Sayings

A golden past
That flees so fast, — Osman Welela

My mama always said, You can always ask. The worst they can do is say no. But I don't think Mama was thinking about revenge and murder when she dealt out that piece of homespun advice — Catrina Burgess

You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention. [ ... ] Never run. [ ... ] Walk slowly, and pretend to be thinking of something else. Sing a song, say a poem, do your tricks, but walk slowly and she may not follow. — Peter S. Beagle

This is about black people selling out other black people. — John Mellencamp

Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'. — J.R.R. Tolkien

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one. — Michael Scott

I was always taught to write the book you want to read. It's a philosophy I haven't wavered from since. — E.A. De Graaf

When you model your relationship on someone else's, your partner can never match up to the fantasy. — Nikki Bayley

To give up a marriage - someone unmarried might imagine it's like giving up a seat in a theater, or sacrificing a trick in bridge for the possibility of better, later. But it is harsher than anyone could realize: a hot invisible fire, burning pieces of hope and fantasy, and charred bits of the past. It had to go, however, if something were to be built in its place. So I stood there and gave Buzz advice, and all I could think of were the automatons we had seen at Playland, moving beautifully in the wind, and the children who were taken behind the scenes on a tour and shown, to their surprise, the vast tangle of wires and switches that would be so hard to undo, and even worse, once undone, to bring to life again. — Andrew Sean Greer

My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot. — Juliet Marillier

Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't soar free. — C.J. Milbrandt

Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram
it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar. — Anne Lamott

Dear, he do have a problem. — Taylor Ann Bunker

You don't know anything about me."
"No, I know not everything about you. But I sense enough to know you have mistaken obsession with drive, guilt with injustice. I know you want to escape what you are, cabbage fairy," he said, reaching for his hood and gloves and tucking them into the waistband of his trousers. "Your desires are no different from my own, I simply have the courage to face them. — F.D. Lee

Choose your battles wisely and remember, what the heart knows, walks afar from reason. It simply is. — Angelo Tsanatelis

I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change. — Koren Zailckas

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough. — Barbara Hambly

When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point. — Connilyn Cossette

Fantasy is easy, all you have to do is this. Here's an interesting culture, here's another interesting culture. What would happen if you put these two cultures in the same world? From there all you have to answer for the reader is, why are these two cultures fighting? And more importantly, why should the reader care? If you can do that you will have a great story on your hands. — Shane Porteous

All the vital components that make a relationship successful, without any of the emotional messiness to drag it down. It's about respect, caring, and commitment. Shared goals and compatible priorities. It's about treating marriage like a partnership instead of some romantic fantasy. It's about two people liking each other. — Mira Lyn Kelly

It cannot be an American fight. And I think what the president [Barack Obama] has consistently said - which I agree with - is that we will support those who take the fight to ISIS. That is why we have troops in Iraq that are helping to train and build back up the Iraqi military, why we have special operators in Syria working with the Kurds and Arabs, so that we can be supportive. — Hillary Clinton

I guess, my advice would be the following: stay calm and do not let the panic seize you. — Kateryna Kei

The perpetrator is a person. He's got blood flowing in his or her veins. Does it matter if he or she is Black or White? What does it count if the perpetrator is Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist or what have you? Does the person's sexuality matter? Does it matter if the villain is Conservative or Lib Dem? — S.A. David

If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards. — J.R.R. Tolkien

To strive to better oneself is natural and expected.
To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy. — T.A. Miles

When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.' — Andy Rourke

There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys. — Charlton Heston

The Hmong have a phrase, hais cuaj txub kaum txub, which means "to speak of all kinds of things." It is often used at the beginning of an oral narrative as a way of reminding the listeners that the world is full of things that may not seem to be connected but actually are; that no event occurs in isolation; that you can miss a lot by sticking to the point; and that the storyteller is likely to be rather long-winded. — Anne Fadiman

Impressive deduction," Ryan murmured. "You certainly look deeper than most." He brushed back a strand of my hair, and I screwed my eyes shut. He was doing this on purpose. "But let me give you some advice." His lips were right next to my ear. "I wouldn't peer too far. Even the clearest window can cast back your own reflection. — Sam Dogra

People don't like to guess. It's easier to know something by how it immediately appears. Dark, hard metal is known as it appears, and so dark, hard people are built from it. Marble is smooth and pale and bright like the faces chipped into it. But that's something about life, what you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better. If they could speak, do you think they'd all be the same? — Devon Michael

Besides, men aren't worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we'd be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you're the only person you can trust. — S.R. Crawford

Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life. — Jess C. Scott

Can't or won't?" "Won't." "So you know why." "Yes." "But you won't tell me." "If I do, you will run screaming from this room, and you'll never want to return. — E.L. James

Just remember who you are ... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you. — Cinda Williams Chima

Err on the side of awesome. — Brandon Sanderson

If the path isn't in front of you, you can't choose to walk it." - Viriathus, Revelation — R.P. Miller

Our reason tries in vain to show them to us; we refuse to see them till we find them in the way of our interests." Prince — Andrew Lang

If a stronger enemy is confidently relaxed for the night, leave him so. Disturbing him, in any manner, is bordering stupidity. — Angelo Tsanatelis

What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?

And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice? — Laini Taylor

The hardest part of being a Canadian kid is having to color in Nunavut with a crayon in school, hell on earth. — Rebecca McNutt

Was I right?" she asked him. "Was I right to make a stand against what I believed to be wrong? Even though many ills have come from it? I have been asking myself this a lot lately. I must be quiet in my conscience. — Alison Weir