Best Quote by Paul Di Filippo

With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable…

— Guy Debord

Some persons are talking about imaginary stories as history. One should not get fooled by believing them and they should not be accepted.

— M. K. Stalin

Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the…

— Ken Liu

If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary character of…

— David Friedrich Strauss

“I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is a genre…

— Dean F. Wilson

“Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.”

— Laura Resnick

“The underlying and more ominous question is whether the story of our species — the greater human narrative — has simply become too enormous,…

— Steve Almond

From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are either set…

— Brian Stableford

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance,…

— Hannah Arendt

Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and relationship of…

— Robert M. Utley

At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest…

— Patricia A. McKillip

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with…

— Steve Stern