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"Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves."
"There's this huge number of desperate people."
"We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them."
"Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered."
"Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales."
"We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists."
"Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris."
"The journey is the treasure."
"For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man."
"You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic."
"It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army."
"Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy."
"My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings."
"My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work."
"If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else."
"If you want truth you should begin by giving it."
"The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do."
"Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are."
"I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?""
"Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun"