“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
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“All great novels are great fairy tales.”
“There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!”
“The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.”
“A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.”
“One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal." Discovering that the modern world can still contain the wonder and strangeness of a fairy tale is part of what my novels are about.”