Able Quote by Arthur Phillips

What I like about mixing fiction and non-fiction is being able to fully explore an idea without being bound by genre. If you scratch…

— Helen Humphreys

C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in poetry. The…

— Jon Foreman

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being…

— Dani Shapiro

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time. One of…

— Adam Morris

There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on…

— Katie Kitamura

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as…

— Thomas Goodwin

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the…

— Gloria Reuben

“A plan is the transport medium which conveys a person from the station of dreams to the destination of success. Goals are the transport…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, it's advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.

— Amish Tripathi

With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very…

— William Boyd