“To pass beyond communication was to pass beyond salvation; he”
― It
― It
“Don’t worry that you aren’t giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.”
― Mistborn Trilogy
― Mistborn Trilogy
“Without a shadow of a doubt, the first fiction ever recounted was fantasy. Guys sitting around the campfire telling each other stories about the gods who made lightning, and stuff like that. They did not tell one another literary stories. They did not complain about difficulties of male menopause while being a junior lecturer on some midwestern college campus. Fantasy is without a shadow of a doubt the ur-literature, the spring from which all other literature has flown.”
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“G. K. Chesterton compared fantastic fiction to going on holiday—that the importance of your holiday is the moment you return, and you see the place you live through fresh eyes.”
― Stories
― Stories
“Every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged”
― Lexicon
― Lexicon
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