ha ha ha ha Game of Thrones (the book) influenced everything, man
all of that shit Christian fantasy I read from 6-15 is straight up JACKED from Westeros, man
just…they subtracted the sex, mannnnn
We become different from each other, opponents even. But we all share a conspiratorial wink when we talk about certain magical authors and books. Those that made us discover literature without weighing us down with dogma or teaching us rules. This is our true common heritage: stories faithful not to what people see but to what people dream.
Boris Balkan, The Club Dumas (by Arturo Pérez-Reverte)
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C.S. Lewis (via prufrockslovesong)