“There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers… — S.A. Reid Copy Share Image
“There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in… — Leonard S. Marcus Copy Share Image
“A related question is where in time to begin. Should you begin far back in a character's past and move forward, or… — Julie Checkoway Copy Share Image
“All writers struggle at some point with the problem of balance between authority and involvement, seduction and revelation. Specifically, beginning writers wonder… — Julie Checkoway Copy Share Image
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work… — Ted Conover Copy Share Image
“Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.” — Raymond A. Mar Copy Share Image
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
