Sarah Beth Durst

Fantasy is 100% discussing the human condition.

Yeah.

In fact, I would argue that it is able to do it in a much more extreme and in-depth way because it is fantasy than other forms of literature because...

You can take a concept and explore it to its very extreme beyond the rules of physics and the known world.

And you can push that idea of revenge.

You can push the idea of love, of second chances, of hope.

of hopelessness.

I don't write that one, but I do some of the other ones.

But you can do it in a real extreme, extreme way.

And I often think of it as the extreme sport of empathy, because we really are putting ourselves in the footsteps of these people that

are like blue or have wings or fangs or whatever.

And it is reflecting back some aspect of what it means to be human, what it means to move through the world and react to the world.

Yeah, I like fantasy.

Yes, yeah, absolutely.

It lets you explore things within a journey that you know that you're going to come back from.

I don't know.

have a life outside of writing.

No, it's good.

Writing makes me happy.

I am a pretty cozy person.