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A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.
-Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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A Lot Of Manuscripts That Come In,

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.
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I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'yes, it's a comic. yes, this is fantasy. yes, this is science fiction,' and defend the genre instead of saying, 'horror is a bit passe so this is dark fantasy,' and that' s playing someone else's game. so that's why i say i'm a fantasy writer and to hell with 'it doesn't read like what i think of as a fantasy'. in that case what you think of as a fantasy is not a fantasy. or there is more to it than you think.
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If pressed to supplement tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, i would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. pressed further, i would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. pressed further still, i would say to read this book.
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Wonder is like grace, in that it's not a condition we grasp; it grasps us. wonder is not an obligatory element in the search for truth. we can seek truth without wonder's assistance. but seek is all we'll do; there will be no finding. unless wonder descends, unlocks us ... truth is unable to enter. wonder may be the aura of truth, the halo of it. or something even closer. wonder may be the caress of truth, touching our very skin.
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If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. you've already read too much. read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.
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