Alberto ManguelUnicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.
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We should see fantasy as an opportunity to step outside of reality and peer inside of our own minds. We should be able to imagine others to be what they are not, and we should be able to create those characters within those worlds with as much depth as those created by the greatest writers in history.
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