“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
Patricia A. McKillip (1948) American fantasy writer
“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters', without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”
Some Statements and Truisms about Neologisms, Newisms, Postisms, Parasitisms, and other small Seismisms, The States of Theory, ed. David Carroll, New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
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