Thursday, December 5, 2013

J. R. R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”





“I do not believe that I have ever written a children’s book,” the great Maurice Sendak once said in an interview. “I don’t write for children,” he told Colbert.



Click here to read the rest of the article: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/12/05/j-r-r-tolkien-on-fairy-stories/



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