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Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other.

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At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concret...more

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It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

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In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

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I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

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I might be asked, ‘Do you equally reject the approach which begins with the question “What do modern children need?” — in other words, with the moral ...more

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[The fairy tale] is accused of giving children a false impression of the world they live in. But I think no literature that children could read gives ...more

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An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, t...more