“A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.” KnowsDreamCuttingColdReaderFleshNightmareBladesInjuredSeparatingCalculatingLucid Dreaming Author:Del Howison
“I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.” ThinkingMayImportantBookDreamLosesNumbersNovelWrittenReaderMy FavoriteFinestFear Of DeathTributeSomewhere In Time Author:Richard Matheson
“History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.” ThinkingWorldShouldWritingImportantPlayUseShowsDreamMoralHistoryReaderDisciplineErrorsReactionsTendenciesFalsehoodVersusMixturesWhat's ImportantWriting HistoryPower Play Book:Heart Mountain Source: Heart Mountain
“The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably conclude that, if the eyes of the spectators have sometimes been deceived by fraud, the understanding of the readers has much more frequently been insulted by fiction.” IfsSometimesDreamEyeUnderstandingFictionHistoryReaderMiracleCalmPhilosopherFraudSuspicionDeceivedSpectatorsRoman EmpireInsultedProfaneOmenProdigies Book:History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus
“Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.” LooksDreamMinesPoetReaderCurious Author:W. H. Auden
“A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.” WantKindStoriesDreamLostReaderEaseInvitesSuperficialSlides Author:Steven Erikson