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The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
- Kate Forsyth
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You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.
- Kate Forsyth
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Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
- Kate Forsyth
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
- Kate Forsyth
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#Audience
#Children
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#People
As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'
- Kate Forsyth
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Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
- Kate Forsyth
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
- Kate Forsyth
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#Doctorate
#History
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I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.
- Kate Forsyth
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#Childhood
#Dog
#Hospital
#Injuries
As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.
- Kate Forsyth
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#Mind
#Mouth
#Words
It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
- Kate Forsyth
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#Me
#People
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#Speech
The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
- Kate Forsyth
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
- Kate Forsyth
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#Language
#Life
#My Life
#Speech
Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
- Kate Forsyth
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#Love
#True Love
#True
#Work
Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
- Kate Forsyth
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#Differences
#Ground
#People
Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
- Kate Forsyth
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#Love
#Transformation
#True Love
I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.
- Kate Forsyth
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