"Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle."

-- Graham Joyce

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“Fantasy is an 'F' word that hopefully the five second delay won't do anything with”
“If you're going to hold on tight to your life, better make sure it's exactly the way you want it”
“Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.”
“After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.”
“I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.”

Source : "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire". Book by John Toland, p.49, 2003.
“To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By good is meant that photography which accepts all the limitations inherent in photographic technique and takes advantage of the possibilities and characteristics the medium offers. By bad photography is mean that which is done, one may say, with a kind of inferiority complex, with no appreciation of what photography itself offers: but on the contrary, recurring to all sorts of imitations.”

Source : Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1982). “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti”
“Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.”
“I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.”

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