Variant: I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
“I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy”
“I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.”
Ray Bradbury interview http://lists.topica.com/lists/gsn-newsday-list/read/message.html?sort=t&mid=911788456 March 23, 2005
Source: The Sundered Worlds (1965), Chapter 7 (pp. 229-230)
“I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed.”
Source: Adultery
“Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there”
Context: I don't find fantasy to be more or less suited to philosophical questions than any other genre, really. I think that the soul of fantasy—or second-world fantasy at least—is our problematic relationship with nostalgia. The impulse to return to a golden age seems to be pretty close to the bone, at least in western cultures, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's a human universal. For me, it's tied up with the experience of aging and the impulse to recapture youth. Epic fantasy, I think, takes its power from that. We create golden eras and either celebrate them or—more often—mourn their loss.
Interview with Peter Orullian http://orullian.com/writing/danielabraham_interview.html
Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 16 (p. 89)
“I write fantasy. The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451.”
It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.
A Conversation with Ray Bradbury - Point Loma Nazarene University, Writer's Symposium By The Sea; April, 2001 http://www.cosmolearning.com/videos/a-conversation-with-ray-bradbury-2001-1131/
“I am often asked is [my work] science fiction or fantasy and my answer is usually ‘Yes’.”
In a panel about his work in Comic Con 2010. Quoted in China Miéville Takes Comic Con http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/08/china-mieville-takes-comic-con.
