Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruno Heller

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

Edmund White

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

Anton Chekhov

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

David Mamet

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

John Cale

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

Henry Flynt

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Paul Valery

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

Phyllis McGinley

It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

Nicolas Cage

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

Charles Stross

I don't do flash fiction.

China Mieville

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

China Mieville

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

China Mieville

One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

David Morrell

There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them.

David Mitchell

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Kurt Vonnegut

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

Edith Wharton

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

China Mieville

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

Benjamin Percy

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

Elizabeth Moon

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

Tansy Rayner Roberts

One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.

Debra Messing

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

Mark Rylance

Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

Brandon Sanderson

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

John Fogerty

We heard rumors over the years that Fantasy was on the market, but nothing materialized,

Brent Weeks

'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.