“I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing that you can do - because of the ways that the real and the unreal weave together to create something that feels more true than anything.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingKindRealTogetherSpiritualCan DoFictionPracticeUnrealSpiritual Practice Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.” ThinkingWayForceCan DoFictionPiecesReaderHigherIdealsLaysMy WayWay Of Thinking Author:Gene Stratton-Porter
“What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.” PeopleHumanityCan DoFictionPoetEssaysFiction Writers Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction.” IfsWritingMovingCan DoFictionQualityNiceMovementYou Can Do ItMomentumWriting FictionKeep It Moving Author:John Updike
“When I think about the new film, I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.” PeopleThinkingWayWantI CanSometimesFilmCan DoFictionMissingBehaviorDocumentariesObservingUnspoken Author:Robert Greene
“I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator... You've got a documentary, I've got a voice. Animated films. Big films, small films.” WantI CanDifferentBigsFilmVoiceCan DoFictionComedyDramaHorrorScience FictionDifferent ThingsDocumentariesAnimatedNarratorsAnimated Films Author:Colin Farrell