Showing posts with label Joan Aiken. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Joan Aiken, on stories:


Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.

– Joan Aiken.