“When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .” UseFictionPsychologyBearsTruth IsExtraordinaryStrangerAccidentsNovelistsContradictionTwistsPlausibleStranger Than Fiction Author:Bill Vaughan
“As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit - subliterature.” YearsKindMovingYoungMy OwnFictionFantasyBearsAdultsScience FictionHistoricalYoung AdultVariousGenreBigotryHistorical FictionSci FiScarResentmentRealismMagical RealismParables Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear and he mentioned that he had gotten started writing when he was eight. And I began writing when I was 10. I think we're influenced by the stuff, we find it and we love it and we're influenced by it....I know I collected my first rejection slip when I was 13, and I went on collecting them for a long time after that.” ThinkingKnowsWritingFirstsLongYoungStuffInterestingFictionBearsLong TimeProgramScience FictionEightRejectionSlipsCollectingFiction Writers Author:Octavia Butler
“Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.” MeanPowerfulFictionBearsRiversOriginalsWitFearlessJoyfulBleakCadenceBeckett Author:Sam Lipsyte
“Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.” FeelsShouldRealDealsFictionFantasyDangerousBearsSafeInsanityDragonsWildernessMysticismCommoners Book:The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.” MayFormReadingImaginationFictionAirBearsReaderWingsGentleFancyCastles Book:The cry (1754) Source: The cry (1754)