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It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

Fantasy is a demanding genre.

You can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

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

Everyone needs a fantasy.

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.