The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature Quotes

“The imagination is not merely the soul's treasury, where the senses store their pictures in safe-keeping for subsequent use; besides this it also has a region of its own which extends much further than the dimension of the senses…It not only places the real before our eyes in a vivid image and makes distant things present but also, with a power more potent than that of magic, it draws that which does not exist out of the state of potentiality, gives it a semblance of reality and makes us see, hear and feel these new creations.”
― Edward James, The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

“the current agreed-upon interpretation,”
― Edward James, The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature