Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't feel at home with them; they don't want complexities, remoteness. If there is any such connection, I'll bet that it is basically an aesthetic one

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.