“Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.” Has BeensMightHateCommonFictionAdventureConflictLonelyAgreementMight Have BeenLove And HateMusings Book:The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography Source: The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography
“The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindImportantBookStoriesSchoolYoungNaturalMy OwnFictionNovelSuccessfulMysteryFieldsAdventureRight NowStandardsHigh SchoolAdultsVictimYoung AdultTitlesAwardsSpainRegister Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.” BookFictionGoneAdventureTerritoryNew Books Author:Richard Laymon
“Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.” Has BeensCharacterFictionAdventureEqualScience FictionStorytellingEpicNew HopeScience Fiction Movie Author:James Berardinelli
“in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.” SexFictionWrittenAdventureLoversPressesChosenSixtySheetsAmorousBerserk Author:Doris Day
“Theres two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once youve read, you never look at the world the same way again.” WorldWayLooksTwoBookLastsStarsFictionAdventureScience FictionSolveSci FiMcdonalds Author:David Gerrold
“It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.” ChristianRomanceYoungFictionFantasyMysteryAdventureOffersAdultsAppreciateScience FictionHistoricalYoung AdultContemporaryVarietySuspense Author:Randy Alcorn
“I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.” WritingStoriesWomenFictionSeaAdventureHealthyBattleAnd LoveWineTalesSubjectiveScornCommonplaceManlyStoutYarn Book:Willa Cather Source: Willa Cather
“Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.” WritingFictionAdventureMoodNervesSympatheticGeometryComplicityAgility Author:Octavio Paz
“In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.” HumansEndsEarthMotivationValuesAsksLossNumbersFictionTalentAdventureHugeSixCommitmentDirectScience FictionBillionsTinyIdeologyHuman LifeThe End Of The DayComparisonRelativeContinuingSurvivingParticipantsRoboticsSpace TravelDispassionateVicariousSpaceflightScience Fiction MovieRelative Value Author:James Van Allen
“...fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that "experience"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing.” MadeWarSoulDoneWholeShowsCan DoFictionWonderAdventureMoonWhole LifeCivil WarReceivingImmenseInfancyPrerequisites Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“At the beginning of my career, I shot a lot more documentaries because I liked the adventure, and probably also because it was easier, and still is easier, for women DPs to shoot documentary than it is to shoot fiction.” StillsFictionCareersAdventureEasierShotsDocumentaries Author:Maryse Alberti
“In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them, then you are reduced to writing about spectacular unreal people. You know, James Bond or something, and you cook up adventures.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingFictionDemocracyIssuesCenturyAdventureOrdinaryCooks21st CenturyOrdinary PeopleSpectacularUnreal Author:John Updike
“I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.” EndsSometimesCharacterDreamFictionAdventureThe End Of The DayHeroicOur DreamsRevealingFictional Character Author:Alan Moore