Fantasy Author Quotes

“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”
― Patricia Fuller

“It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.”
― Terry Pratchett

“If you're stuck in a puddle, it means there's higher ground all around you, you just have to step onto it.”
― Emilyann Girdner

“War was a terrible, fickle thing–an eternal, horrendous nightmare for those who lived it, and a thing easily forgotten by those who didn’t.”
― Ella Rose Carlos, A Long Lost Fantasy

“Tis a miserable thing to turn a soul into something it is not. Perhaps it is one of life’s greatest misfortunes.”
― Ella Rose Carlos, A Long Lost Fantasy

“Reality worked its way into my dreams where it wasn’t welcome.”
― Emilyann Girdner, The Labyrinth Wall

“World building is not just about creating a place, but crafting a story that exists within it, giving life to its inhabitants and breathing soul into its landscapes.”
― J. Edwards Holt, The Seven Branches

“Why do I write? Anything that I look through my own creative mind, as profoundly or sea dim as it goes, I get comfortable with its meaning and write it. I want to communicate my words to individuals as they can feel my feelings for this malicious world we live inside. Nothing is radiant what I compose, it will be dim and extremely honest like H.P. Lovecraft set to his own particular tone. Everything that I write will have a repulsiveness, have a misfortune, have a consummation that will be obscurely glad however totally unnerving that is valid with regards to this presence. Fiction to me will have sentiments within them that will make your internal soul jump inside its sea and see the art of what it can bring into this presence.”
― - D.L. Lewis

“Too many chili peppers. Yuck. Why would someone use so many? Is it a bear thing?”
― N.D. Jones, Bearly Gold: A Goldilocks and the Three Bears Reimagining

“General Vois-Usurper-King Consort-Great Bladesman-Betrayed by his second wife.

Born poor with not a coin to his name. The moment General Vois's hands touched iron, they never parted. Stories of men old and gray claim he earned the respect of many on the battlefield when saving the life of King Rubart whose body he dragged. Since then, many follow him and with time he had an army large enough to wage a war. Sworn enemy to his second wife, Alexandra, he now sits imprisoned in The House of Lych-a mental facility.”
― Marilyn Velez, Tundra: The Darkest Hour

“Taking the wrong fork, I veered onto a curious road where the ground grew increasingly higher, and although my heart warned me to turn back, I didn't, for the curiosities of the mind are much stronger than imagined. During the course of my journey, I noticed trees becoming unwieldy, taking shapes my eyes had not seen. What was this peculiarity that battered my mind with such wonderment? There were no signs, nor directories, not even a guide, but my curiosities did not wind, for too eager was I to turn. So, like a child lost to the night, I walked this lonesome patch of gray until coming across a curve where the forest belt spread like wildfire, and the wild weeds and grasses produced a certain beauty not found in other parts.”
― Marilyn Velez, Tundra: The Darkest Hour