The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced.

Robin McKinley
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In her essay, "The Great Thing About Fantasy", Ursula LeGuin wrote: “The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better.” We all have these dreams, longings, hopes, fears, and strivings inside of us. The problem is that we don't often get to share those desires with the world. But when we do, as LeGuin says, “...then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced.”

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