“Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.” BodyFictionAlive Author:Colum McCann
“If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be.” PeopleIfsMeanIdeasCharacterInterestingFictionPiecesAlivePhilosophical Author:David Foster Wallace
“... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.” IfsWellsArtFictionBreakAliveImagineYouthStandingCriticismAnd LoveMidstHonourSovereigntyAssuredLiterary Criticism Book:Selected essays Source: Selected essays
“The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.” HumansCharacterHuman BeingsInterestingFictionPiecesAlive Author:Christopher Reeve
“Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.” FictionAliveWonderfulInternationalWaveScope Author:Colum McCann
“Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.” FictionAlivePeriods Author:Khaled Hosseini
“For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsBelieveRealityWalksFictionFantasyAliveMysteryStreetsWindowScience FictionScaredMythologyVersionsBlockGenreTwilightClosestLampsMistSilhouettes Author:Brit Marling
“Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people will root, has never had anything to do with why I read or write fiction. As long as the writing and story remain alive, intense, invigorating, provoking, the characters can be as demonic or saintly as the author wants.” PeopleWantWritingLongCharacterStoriesFictionAliveRootsIntenseSettingSettingsProvokingDemonicInvigorating Author:James Lasdun