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“Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.”
― The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy
― The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy
“Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.”
― You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
― You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
“We spend so much time urging children to trust us to help them with their problems. Yet we don’t even have the courage to let them read books in which those problems are named for what they are, or to let them freely talk about those problems. So the question I have is this: Why should children trust us? That’s the part that I think the censors have not thought through carefully.”
― You Can't Say That! Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
― You Can't Say That! Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
“Some mediocre ladies in influential positions are usually embarrassed by an unusual book and so prefer the old familiar stuff which doesn't embarrass them and also doesn't give the child one slight inkling of beauty and reality. This is most discouraging to a creative writer, like you, and also to a hardworking and devoted editor like me. I love most of my editor colleagues but I must confess that I get a little depressed and sad when some of their neat little items about a little girl in old Newburyport during the War of 1812 gets [sic] adopted by a Reading Circle.”
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