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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #tales
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table. ↗
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? ↗
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One of my favourite things to do when I write is to bring a sense of wonder to a normal everyday setting... Yes, there are magical elements, but there are also very down-to-earth elements and often what shines through isn’t the magic, but the lanterns that the characters light against the dark... If you substitute the words “fairy tale” or “myth” for “fantasy,” the reason I use these elements in my own work is that they create resonances that illuminate solutions to the real world struggle without the need for an authorial voice to point them out. Magic never solves the problems–we have to do that on our own–but in fiction it allows the dialogue to have a much more organic approach than the talking heads one can encounter in fiction that doesn’t utilize the same tools. [from the interview Year’s Best 2012: Charles de Lint on “A Tangle of Green Men”] ↗
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Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519? ↗
