“People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.” PeopleThinkingWantWritingBelieveDifficultFictionImagineEasierMemoirNovelistsImaginaryImagine ThatImaginary Life Author:Mark Leyner
“There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.” WritingBelieveEndsBitsProcessFictionPiecesProduceArgumentLuckNervousControlledWorthwhileBreakdownNervous Breakdown Book:Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel Source: Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel
“I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.” BelieveCareFilmCoursesI BelieveFictionTeachBalanceTake CareDocumentaries Author:Arnon Goldfinger
“All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe, it nevertheless is coming out of the deepest recesses of myself.” BelieveCharacterFictionNovelRelatedComing OutNeverthelessInventingInner LifeMake BelieveRecess Author:Paul Auster
“I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world seem like a richer place. The world is awfully short on joy and richness, and I think to some extent it’s the fiction writer’s job to salvage some of that and to give it to us in ways that we can believe in.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantGivingBelieveSeemsJobsJoyFictionTinyMeaningfulRichnessFiction WritersSalvage Author:Wells Tower
“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.” BelieveDoePainBeliefEffortFictionDependsSightDisappearAnxiousSparesPromotingUnwillingOligarchyNo PainPlain Sight Author:Michael Lind
“I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.” PeopleShouldBelieveHardWholeHateI BelieveFictionHard WorkI HateIntelligentScience FictionTemptationAweCommitteesCompetentProtagonistsAwe Inspiring Author:David Brin