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

“I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.”

“Fantasy is a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.”

“The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.”

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”

“My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.”

“The struggle for existence in a universe we did not choose, and the burden of being a member of the only race which values objective, verifiable truth as an end in itself, makes us sometimes long for escape from reality -- in some cases through a literature of the fantastic, of marvelous dream worlds, of free-ranging fantasy. But we must not confuse that necessary escape with what is real. Permit me to suggest to the reader that it is a waste of his time and energy to play with fantasies that lack the literary and aesthetic charm of poetry and imaginative prose fiction.”

“I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.”

“People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.”

“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.”