Baroque Quote by Asti Hustvedt

“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in…

— Asti Hustvedt

“When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates.”

— Robert McKee

The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements…

— Brion Gysin

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman

“Writers are a combative bunch when it comes to aesthetics, and the generation before GENRE are born into a discourse that’s been brewing since…

— Hal Duncan

“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the fiction was…

— William Gibson

“Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce or deliberately…

— K. J. Bishop

The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much…

— Zia Haider Rahman