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“Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.”

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Vera Nazarian

Vera Nazarian is an American writer born on May 25, 1966. Her works span various literary genres, including novels, poetry, and essays. She explores diverse themes such as history, culture, love, and human nature in her writing. more

“When reviewing my novel Dreams of the Compass Rose for the Magazine of F&SF, master fantasist Charles de Lint called it "engaging and resonant, creating a new mythology that feels so right one might be forgiven for thinking that it's the cultural heritage of some forgotten country or people that have been lost to history." This of course I take as the highest compliment, since it was indeed my sincere intent.”

“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.”

World Real Existence Fantasy Magic Notion Traditional Brands Fantastic Ritual Real World Layers

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“No waving of enchanted wands but heightened perception. No magic objects, but a transformed and enhanced reality. No spells or chants, but the raw power of the human will to enact supernatural change upon the universal fabric. This is the kind of "magic" that fills Lords of Rainbow - elemental, organic, humanistic - an extension of reality.”

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“I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.”

Thinking Literature Imagination Fantasy

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“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.”

Needs Humans Kind I Can Roles Fantasy China Consolation Complacency Need A Change Subversion Yes I Can

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“I see no profound progress taking place when there is no hope, no inspiration, only drastic overthrow and rebellion. Before having a revolution of thought there must be real ideals to aspire to, and they are only to be found within.”

Real Inspiration Found Progress Revolution Ideals Profound Rebellion Being Real Aspire No Hope Drastic

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“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.”

Wells Self Fantasy Events Creating Flow Fabric Illusory Plunder Recent Events

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“Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.”

Literature Fantasy Awakening Status Quo Subversion

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“Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather, consolation is the first step in regaining personal equilibrium and strength, which necessarily precedes the ability to act.”

World Firsts Has Beens Eye Evil Ability Steps Apathy First Steps Consolation Closing Inaction Equilibrium

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“Thus, true long-term change is brought about not by destructive passion of the moment but by well-reasoned constructive action. Violent shock of Armageddon that leaves nothing in its wake but a blank slate is not a solution, only a postponement of progress.”

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