Army Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

“On Tolkien: "His fussiness threatened to overwhelm his creativity.”

— Alister E. McGrath

“The success of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings helped restore the reputation of these discredited genres, thus…

— Louis A. Markos

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which…

— Joseph Addison

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

— Pattiann Rogers

The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this…

— Jo Walton

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

“The Lord of the Rings is a million times more interesting than mere literature, which is why mere literary critics cannot get to grips…

— Robert McNeil

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

— Kameron Hurley

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

— Josh Billings

“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

They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the…

— Christopher Tolkien

I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if…

— Lester Bangs