Quotes from Maria Tatar

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

Words have not just the astonishing capacity to banish boredom and create wonders. They also enable contact with the lives of others and with story worlds, arousing endless curiosity about ourselves and the places we inhabit.

Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

As always, aesthetics and ethics dance a tango in dramas.

I want to be the hero," she announced.

Writing, and creativity in general, had been the domain of "great men" and would stay there until women stormed the arena, using words as their weapons.4

Acts committed in the heat of passion as much as acts of heartfelt compassion have the power to disenchant

At that, the old hag flew into such a rage she burst into pieces on the spot, and the princess with the long nose did the same right after her, and the whole pack of trolls right after that. At least I haven't heard a word about them since.