“Los reinos vienen y van, así como los siglos, las tradiciones, los reyes y los escritores, pero el rey Arturo siempre regresa.” LiteratureFantasyMythologyLiteraturaFantasíaArthurian LegendArthurianMitologiaRey Arturo Book:The Bright Sword Source: The Bright Sword
“I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.” WayFeelsStillsLostLosesFantasyCenturyAsking21st CenturyUrgentMourn Author:Lev Grossman
“It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.” PlayNumbersFantasyWonderfulUnbroken Author:Lev Grossman
“I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.” StoriesFantasyDragonsCartoonWizardsPhantomsDungeonsChroniclesNarniaPhantom Tollbooth Author:Lev Grossman
“I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?” WayBookEndsHomeKidsNextFantasyDoorsMagicLandSurpriseHatedWizardsPhantomsNarniaFantasy BooksPhantom TollboothYay Author:Lev Grossman
“I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveFantasyKnow HowMagicReader Author:Lev Grossman
“I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.” LinesFantasyConventionsCrossingsBreaking RulesCrossing The Line Author:Lev Grossman
“I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.” IfsKnowsImportantHardFantasyClearGenre Author:Lev Grossman
“Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.” WorldMindMadeRealFeelingsProblemFormDesireAnswersTechnologyFantasyMagicReaderOffersTrapped Author:Lev Grossman
“The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.” PeopleLinesFantasy Author:Lev Grossman
“More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.” WayWritingFeltFictionFantasyHorrorScience FictionScaredOptimisticInnocenceRaysBeing OptimisticUncoolBradbury Author:Lev Grossman
