“When people say that this kind of fantasy fiction is escapist and evading the real world, well I think that’s an evasion. It’s actually trying to confront something that most people would rather not confront.” — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate. — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after a gap… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
“When people say that this kind of fantasy fiction is escapist and evading the real world, well I think that’s an evasion. It’s actually… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it. — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
“Why could Tolkien not be more like Sir Thomas Malory, asked [Edwin] Muir, in the third Observer review of those cited above, and give… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
![“Why could Tolkien not be more like Sir Thomas Malory, asked [Edwin] Muir, in the third Observer review of those cited above, and give us heroes and heroines like Lancelot and Guinevere, who ' knew temptation, were sometimes unfaithful to their vows,' were engagingly marked by adulterous passion?…” quote by Tom Shippey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c59/tom-shippey-50056_evil_why-could-tolkien-not-be-more-like-sir-t_3112736.jpg)