Tag: fairy-stories

A Thought from JRR Tolkien – Outside the Prison Walls of Reality

Oct 26, 2011

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by

harmamae

in Quotables

I thought I’d run out of quotes, until it occurred to me to look up authors I like and see what they say about writing. So – voila! – here is Tolkien, nicely following up on Oscar Wilde’s thoughts on real life in literature: I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions…