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“There come a few times in a person's life where there is a clear choice," Cadvan said. "The difference between one person and another is how they meet that choice,”
― The Naming
― The Naming
“I firmly believe that a good storyteller's education never ends, because to tell stories perfectly you have to know everything about everything. Naturally, none of us actually achieve such complete knowledge - but we should live as if we were trying to do so. You can't afford to close off any area of inquiry.”
― How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
― How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
“The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.”
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.”
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“The truth is that good fantasies carefully limit the magic that's possible. In fact, the magic has to be defined, at least in the author's mind, as a whole new set of natural laws that cannot be violated during the course of the story. That is, if at the beginning of the story you have established that your hero can make only three wishes, you better not have him come up with a fourth wish to save his neck right at the end. That's cheating, and your reader will be quite correct to throw your book across the room and carefully avoid anything you ever write in the future. All speculative fiction stories have to create a strange world and introduce the reader to it - but good fantasy must also establish a whole new set of natural laws, explain them right up front, and then faithfully abide by them throughout.”
― How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
― How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
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