Aspect Quote by Joshua Mohr

I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to…

— Nicole Krauss

“Narratives are universally used for mediating emotional experiences. The purpose of aesthetic objects has been defined, in part, as 'the awakening, intensifying, or maintaining…

— Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen

“Plots are interesting, characters are fascinating, scenery can be totally enveloping,” Morrison says, “but the real art is the deep structure, the way that…

— John Freeman

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it:…

— Patricia A. McKillip

The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying.

— Mark Bernstein

“Don’t forget the most basic reason we read: to discover what happens next. Make certain your devotion to pretty sentences and flesh-and-blood characters and…

— Benjamin Percy

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

— Bonnie Friedman

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these…

— Ira Glass

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of…

— Varley O'Connor

The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the…

— Kate Forsyth