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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.

I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.