When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
You can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.
I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.
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.
It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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.
I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.
I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were.
I've always loved fantasy. I think it's a great way to look at issues that we have in our own lives with a little bit of the pressure off, you know.