{"id":42296,"date":"2024-07-15T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42296"},"modified":"2024-07-14T19:58:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T07:58:28","slug":"once-upon-a-time-a-quote-from-sara-maitland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/07\/15\/once-upon-a-time-a-quote-from-sara-maitland\/","title":{"rendered":"“Once Upon A Time…” — A Quote from Sara Maitland"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Once upon a time is no particular time, fictional time, fairy-story time. This is a doorway; if you’re lucky, you go through it as a child, aurally, before you can read, and if you are very lucky, you become a free citizen … and can come and go as you please. ” <\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

– Sara Maitland<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sara Maitland<\/a> is a UK author, who has been describe as “writer, thinker, seeker, seer.” <\/em><\/p>\n

This quote appealed, in part because of the reflections sparked by\u00a0 Victoria M Adams’ recent posts on myth, magic, and fairy tales<\/a>. I also believe books offer us doorways into disparate worlds: all we have to do is work through (yes, a little like Narnia and the wardrobe \ud83d\ude09 ) — and, of course, I write fantasy that features portals, gates, and other magical doorways.<\/p>\n

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The quote also resonated in terms of my personal writing and storytelling journey, because I first listened to Sleeping Beauty<\/em> (on the radio) as a very small child, then later read the fairy tale for myself, before — many years later — writing Thornspell<\/em>, which is my own retelling of the tale.<\/p>\n

‘Once upon a time is no particular time…’<\/em> I love it, not least because it puts me in mind of a quote from Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea, where stories begin with the phrase: “As far away as Selidor* and as long ago as forever…”<\/em><\/p>\n

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* Selidor is the island where the great dragons may be found, \r\nin the archipelago known as the Dragon's Reach.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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