“My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world.” WorldRealExistenceFantasyMagicNotionTraditionalBrandsFantasticRitualReal WorldLayers Author:Vera Nazarian
“I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.” ThinkingLiteratureImaginationFantasy Author:Vera Nazarian
“Some writers whom I respect very much, like China Miéville and some others of the New Weird, consider the true role of fantasy to be not Tolkienesque consolation but subversion - a kind of rebe Ûllion from complacency. Yes, I can see what is meant here. And I also see the need to change, to fix, to drastically improve the human lot.” NeedsHumansKindI CanRolesFantasyChinaConsolationComplacencyNeed A ChangeSubversionYes I Can Author:Vera Nazarian
“Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.” WellsSelfFantasyEventsCreatingFlowFabricIllusoryPlunderRecent Events Author:Vera Nazarian
“Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.” LiteratureFantasyAwakeningStatus QuoSubversion Author:Vera Nazarian
“We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.” NeedsMindRealFantasyHorrorReal LifeInsaneMessRendering Author:Vera Nazarian
“What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of pain, a kind of time-out. Such clarity, a new perspective, is made possible by fantastic metaphor.” NeedsKindMadePainWhiteFantasyPerspectiveMetaphorNoiseClarityFantasticTemporaryClamorNew PerspectiveReprieveWhite Noise Author:Vera Nazarian
“Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.” MindSoulFantasyLogicAssumingNumbingAnesthesia Author:Vera Nazarian
“True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is what fantasy can do for us.” Can DoFantasyPainfulHealAllowingIrritation Author:Vera Nazarian
