Fantasy Quotes by Vera Nazarian

9 Fantasy quotes by Vera Nazarian

Vera Nazarian’s nine notes on fantasy weave together curiosity and myth. Though concise, they give a clear sense of her approach to building fantastical realms.

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We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that…

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True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is…

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Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.

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Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

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I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

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My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a…

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Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of…

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What we need in fantasy is the sudden balm of clarity - a temporary reprieve from life's white noise and clamor of…

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Some writers whom I respect very much, like China Miéville and some others of the New Weird, consider the true role of…

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It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy…

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When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and…

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“It's a fact— everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the scariest things…

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Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first,…

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“Meditation is a mysterious method of self-restoration. It involves “shutting” out the outside world, and by that means sensing the universal “presence” which is,…

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The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is…

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Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of…

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I've always been creative verbally, had a flair, my teachers said - wrote great expository essays in elementary school, scribbled little poems, embraced all…

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