It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!
-- Terry Goodkind
   
Terry Goodkind   Name:
Terry Goodkind
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
American
Birth:
1948
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