“All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real.” IdeasRealSeemsCoursesSocialFictionMediaIdentityFitAspectScience FictionSocial MediaContemporaryWonderlandContemporary Life Author:Vijay Seshadri
“Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all emotion-driven. It's not a rational genre, like science fiction is. It's irrational by nature. And it is capable of exploring all aspects of human experience.” MindHumansTwoRomanceEmotionFictionComedyHorrorCapableAspectScience FictionDrivenRationalGenreIrrationalExploringHuman Experience Author:Stephen R. Bissette
“Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a writer can make a mark and change an aspect of the world - much more so than in fiction.” WorldMindFictionAspectMarkTrackThese DaysGenreThinkerNonfiction Author:Lee Gutkind
“Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.” ImportantFictionEmotionalCreatingAspect Author:Alix Kates Shulman
“I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.” ThinkingWorldImportantCharacterScienceArtistFictionFantasyAspectScience FictionVisuals Author:Margaret Weis
“Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that's not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies.” PeopleThinkingI CanLyingFictionParticularAspectAppreciateScience FictionGenreSpaceships Author:Quentin Tarantino
“As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.” NeedsStoriesCertainCoursesFictionAspectFiction Writers Author:Joseph Boyden
“Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person's felt sense of gender was therefore "unreal." That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be. But I think I needed to pay more attention to what people feel, how the primary experience of the body is registered, and the quite urgent and legitimate demand to have those aspects of sex recognized and supported.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsBodyRealitySexFeltPayAttentionFictionNeededDemandAspectIntentionGenderPrimariesUrgentUnrealTrans Author:Judith Butler