“I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.” MenWritingWellsChildrenBookTodayAmericaFictionMen And WomenThoughtfulEntertainingAmerica Today Author:Jennifer Weiner
“I started the movement of SF in America in 1908 through my first magazine, 'MODERN ELECTRICS.' At that time it was an experiment. Science fiction authors were scarce. There were not a dozen worth mentioning in the entire world” WorldFirstsAmericaFictionModernMovementScience FictionExperimentsMagazinesDozenScarce Author:Hugo Gernsback
“Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.” ThinkingShowsAmericaFilmInterestingFictionEuropeMakersFarewellMost InterestingGreat FilmEurope And America Author:David Hare
“I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.” AmericaStrongFictionFemaleScience FictionListsTediousProtagonistsRegularityStrong FemaleFemale Protagonists Author:William Gibson
“America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.” ThinkingMeanRealEndsAmericaDesireFictionTalentConcreteImaginaryGreat Talent Author:Karen Russell
“But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.” MayDoeCharacterSeemsAmericaCertainFictionUnited StatesGracePaintingTerribleFairsEmptyMarkCloudsWitMeritLightningSculptureEloquenceOutlinesOverflowDerivativesBeholderVases Book:Essays and Lectures Source: Essays and Lectures
“You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.” WritingRealityMightAmericaFictionSatirical Author:Philip Roth
“In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.” PeopleThinkingStillsAmericaForceFictionTomorrowScience FictionThinker Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.” PeoplePersonsCharacterStoriesJobsAmericaDesireMotivationGrowsFictionConflictOvercomingObstaclesIndividualismDefiningDefining Ourselves Author:Adam Johnson
“Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough are somehow truth about what America is, whether they were or not.” EnoughAmericaFictionPossibilityPaintingArtwork Author:Cynthia Daignault
“My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but America elected a man who enjoys grabbing women by their pussies.” MenWorldStoriesAmericaEnjoyFictionReflectionAccuratePussyGrabbing Author:Roxane Gay
“In Pakistan, many of the young people read novels because in the novels, not just my novels but the novels of many other Pakistani writers, they encounter ideas, notions, ways of thinking about the world, thinking about their society that are different. And fiction functions in a countercultural way as it does in America and certainly as it did in the, you know, '60s.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWayDoeIdeasDifferentAmericaYoungFictionNovelFunctionNotionEncountersPakistanWay Of Thinking Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote or write in the popular press, like Saramago, Vargas Llosa, and Eco. This strikes me as one way of avoiding opinionated fiction, and allowing your imagination a broader latitude. Similarly, fiction writers from places like India and Pakistan are commonly expected to provide primers to their country's histories and present-day conflicts. But we haven't had that tradition in Anglo-America.” WayWritingCountryAmericaPoliticalImaginationViewsFictionHavensConflictTraditionIndiaPressesExpectedStrikesOne WayLatinAllowingAvoidingPakistanColumnsLatin AmericaIntriguedPresent DayFiction WritersEcoOpinionatedAmerican WriterLatitudePolitical ViewLatin AmericanIndia And Pakistan Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing is infinitely harder. Especially with the economics of serious fiction being what they are in America.” WritingAmericaFictionMorningNovelSeriousToughEconomicsHarderWake UpTheaterNovelistsThank GodEvery MorningNovel Writing Author:Tony Kushner
“The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.” ThinkingShouldAmericaCommunityViewsFictionVisionInternationalArrogantInternational CommunityFuzzyInternationalism Author:Charles Krauthammer