Books Quote by Brian Aldiss

No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before then. Even…

— Rick Riordan

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

— Vera Nazarian

“Lewis was a scholar and deeply spiritual man, so it is no surprise that all his characters have to face the complex nature of…

— E.J. Kirk

The reality is that much of the stuff you see in film, television, comics, and children's cartoons got its start inside the inspired, disruptive…

— Kameron Hurley

“I really feel that we're not giving children enough credit for distinguishing what's right and what's wrong. I, for one, devoured fairy tales as…

— J.K. Rowling

“Fantasy, though, is a literature of things beyond explanation. It calls us back to childhood, either the childhood of our species, before we knew…

— Roger Bellini

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and…

— Terri Windling

“Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off against each other and see who won over…

— Nick Hornby

Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking about Tolkien…

— China Miéville

“If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling -- as editor, as writer, as painter, as…

— Jane Yolen

“Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it, they condescend…

— Ursula K. Le Guin