Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
From Kate Forsyth
Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.
Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
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