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“To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”
Herman Wouk“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction“Agency in fiction has to exist in the context of the worldview. Otherwise agency is not just meaningless or unconvincing, it is often laughable. Unfortunately, agency is often thoughtlessly given to characters who would not have it in reality. p.189”
Jeff VanderMeer, Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction“Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it, they condescend to it, they stand in large groups with their backs to it - because they're afraid of it. They're afraid of dragons. They have Smaugophobia. "Oh those awful Orcs," they bleat, flocking after Edmund Wilson. They know if they acknowledge Tolkien they'll have to admit that fantasy can be literature, and that therefore they'll have to redefine what literature is. And they're too damned lazy to do it.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer, the Reader & the Imagination“Think about how backstory fits the tale you're trying to tell... p.195”
Jeff VanderMeer, Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction“...your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192”
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