“If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?” PeopleIfsThinkingProblemGunBottomSolveReaching Author:Michael Moorcock
“Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution.” IfsWritingFirstsCharacterNovelMysteryDevelopmentElementsMajorsThirdsFinalsDrivenGenreThemePlotResolveResolutionIntroducingIntroductionMain Characters Author:Michael Moorcock
“It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary] fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.” IfsShouldYearsSocialAttentionFictionMysteryProduceRemainsTreatedSuperiorsEditorsJudgedInferiorsImperialismPulpPolarity Author:Michael Moorcock
“Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it does remove the mythic power of the feminine and masculine principles. So I prefer it in its original form, even if you have to wade through Mallory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' - people smashing people for pages and pages! It still has the resonances of myth about it, which makes it work for me. I don't want to know if Mordred led an unhappy childhood or not.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantDoeStillsEnoughCharacterFormPrinciplesChildhoodTvsPagesFairsOriginalsMythUnhappyGenreRemoveFeminineOperaMasculineSoapArthurResonanceWadeSoap OperasSmashingUnhappy Childhood Author:Michael Moorcock
