“ You can't work in the library without going into the Old Levels, said Mirelle somberly. At least some of the time. I wouldn't be keen on going to some parts of the Library, myself.Lirael listened, won… Garth Nix
“ Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over worldbuilding. M. John Harrison
“ Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Faërie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Lightthrough whom is splintered from a single Whiteto many hues, and endlessly combinedin living shapes that move from mind to mind. J.R.R. Tolkien
“ The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and be able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock in… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together. Stories are the mud from which we're all made. The power to imagine… C. Alexander London
“ The villages slept as the capable man went down,Time swished on the village clocks and dreams were alive,The enormous gongs gave edges to their sounds,As the rider, no chevalere and poorly dressed,Imp… Wallace Stevens
“ Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over worldbuilding.Worldbuilding is dull. Worldbuilding literalises the urge to invent. Worldbuilding gives an unnecessary… M. John Harrison
