Posted by
Daniel Crandall on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 3:48:31 PM
An author I've recommended
before gave in interview to
Jimmy Akin. Here's a one of my favorite excerpts, in response to a question about the use of magic in fiction:
"... I wouldn't advise a writer who sees magic as a nice thing to
try to change the way he deals with it! I don't think you can fake these
things. I've known writers who try in their stories to endorse moral
correctnesses they don't actually care about, or which they even feel
to be invalid, just to make their work more palatable to perceived readers'
tastes, and it never works. Your fiction is going to reflect what you
actually believe and don't believe, and it'd be a mistake for Rowling,
for example, to vilify magic just because people think it ought to be
vilified. They may be right and she may be wrong, but it's her eyes
we're looking through when we experience the story."
If you're not reading Tim Powers you should be.
'nuff said