I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

― Dr. Seuss

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

― Lloyd Alexander

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

― Terry Pratchet

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. 

― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

  Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality     

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

― Maya Angelou, Poems

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

― Charles de Lint, The Blue Girl

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.

― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

I live in a world of fantasy, so keep your reality away from me. I see what I want, I want what I see and that is all okay with me.

― Itzah C. Kret

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

― Sappho

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

― Alethea Kontis, Enchanted

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

― Maurice Sendak

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

― Lynda Barry

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

― Diane Duane