[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fUCfu8Mv5BvbzPDG_kPAMQkaHFTNEgpF18nrBfdf0NP8":3,"$fcxAMAvIC_bk5fln7eaEUYyuccMj5jYLJ9ftxsgQMBCo":12},{"author":4,"tags":11},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":9,"slug":10,"image_url":9},8787,"Patricia McKillip","P",5,null,"patricia-mckillip",[],{"quotes":13,"pagination":86},[14,28,39,50,67],{"id":15,"quote_text":16,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":19,"source":20,"quote_tag":21,"commentary":27},2078093,"Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.",4,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[22],{"id":23,"tag":24},5064404,{"id":25,"tag_name":26},45,"dreams","**The Backstory**\n\nPatricia McKillip, a renowned American fantasy author known for her lyrical prose and dreamlike stories, likely penned this passage sometime during the 1970s or 1980s, when she was actively exploring the boundaries of fantasy literature. This era saw McKillip's rise to prominence with novels like \"The Riddle-Master\" trilogy (1976-1979) and her subsequent exploration of mythology and symbolism in works such as \"Something Rich and Strange\" (1975). Her writing often blurs the lines between reality and fantasy, reflecting a keen interest in exploring the human experience through the lens of imagination.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\n\nAt first glance, this quote seems to extol the virtues of creative inspiration, suggesting that the muse or subconscious provides the raw material for artistic expression. However, upon closer inspection, it reveals a deeper tension between passivity and agency. McKillip's statement implies that the act of creation is not so much about deliberate action as it is about surrendering to the natural flow of imagination, allowing one's \"dreams awake\" to guide the creative process.\n\n**How to Use This**\n\nTo apply this mindset in a modern context, artists, writers, and creatives would do well to cultivate a sense of receptivity, embracing the notion that their best ideas often arise from a state of relaxation or surrender rather than forced effort. By learning to trust in the natural flow of imagination, they can tap into a deeper source of inspiration, allowing their work to become more authentic, intuitive, and compelling.",{"id":29,"quote_text":30,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":31,"source":32,"quote_tag":33,"commentary":9},2078074,"I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[34],{"id":35,"tag":36},5064386,{"id":37,"tag_name":38},5498,"excuse",{"id":40,"quote_text":41,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":42,"source":43,"quote_tag":44,"commentary":9},2078057,"Imagination must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it grow larger and noisier.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[45],{"id":46,"tag":47},5064368,{"id":48,"tag_name":49},14629,"begins",{"id":51,"quote_text":52,"author_id":5,"source_id":53,"has_image":18,"author":54,"source":55,"quote_tag":56,"commentary":9},752201,"She had begun to bake to have her eyes looking at a bowl, a flour bin, an oven, a fire, a face, anything but water. Her hands shaped loaves like scallop shells, like moon shells, like starfish; she ate them as if she ate the sea, to make it part of her, to transform bone to shell and lose herself in it, eyeless, thoughtless, wrapped in memories and anchored on some hoary rock against the currents of the deep.",2,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[57,62],{"id":58,"tag":59},3593725,{"id":60,"tag_name":61},47,"fantasy",{"id":63,"tag":64},3593726,{"id":65,"tag_name":66},26034,"the-sea",{"id":68,"quote_text":69,"author_id":5,"source_id":53,"has_image":18,"author":70,"source":71,"quote_tag":72,"commentary":9},31285,"Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[73,78,81],{"id":74,"tag":75},220665,{"id":76,"tag_name":77},25,"love",{"id":79,"tag":80},220646,{"id":60,"tag_name":61},{"id":82,"tag":83},220655,{"id":84,"tag_name":85},839,"heartache",{"currentPage":87,"totalPages":87,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":88},1,10]