In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination Quotes

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A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

Some people write letters, in the library.

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth to mean story, without attaching any connotation of truth or falsehood to it; but a myth is a ...

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of myth.

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination