The witcher

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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of." - Clarence Darrow

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"If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you ."

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Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver.

You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle

If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that.

Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.

Nothing's off limits.

But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap.

It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story.

Don't get me wrong, magic is cool.

But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story.

Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

Patrick Rothfuss