The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs… — 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)