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Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.

The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.

Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Fantasy is a demanding genre.

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

The best fantasy does not offer an answer to our lives, it is an offering that acknowledges enough of the truth to resonate and add to the understanding about the human condition.

I don't want to live in a fantasy world.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.