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“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
~ Neil Gaiman

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
~Ernest Hemingway

“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”
~Stephen King

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
~ Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child, and that if these faculties are encouraged in youth they will act well and wisely in the adult, but if they are repressed and denied in the child they will stunt and cripple the adult personality. And finally, I believe that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.”
~ Ursula K. Le Guin

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”
~ Lloyd Alexander