“In, 1950, at the age, 19 I dropped out of St. George William College in Montreal, as it then was, and sailed for England on the Franconia. Foolishly, no arrogantly, believing I could put Canada and its picayune problems behind me, never dreaming it would become the raw material of most of my fiction and non-fiction. Or that I would care so deeply about its surviving intact.” BelieveProblemDreamCareAgeBehindsFictionCollegeMaterialsEnglandCanadaSurvivingNon FictionRaw MaterialsMontreal Author:Mordecai Richler
“For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.” WritingDreamLeftBehindsFictionDecadesLeft Behind Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.” EyeBehindsFiction Author:Neil Gaiman
“A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.” WantRememberMemoriesBehindsFictionChildhoodFossilsOld Memories Book:The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.” ThinkingWayWritingKindStoriesBehindsFictionMaskLiarsBe KindStorytellerWriting FictionWeavers Author:Edwidge Danticat
“Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.” ThinkingWritingTryingYearsIdeasWantedBehindsFictionEffectsExampleYears AgoWinterVariousMemoirInterviewsProseVolumeJournalAutobiographyEssaysFragmentsNon FictionLiterary WorksWriting Essays Author:Paul Auster
“It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the way in; it's the door; and then what's behind it is always some kind of people, which I think probably makes me more in the tradition of realistic fiction because that's usually what I'm interested in, the people.” PeopleThinkingWayKindImportantStoriesBehindsFictionDoorsTraditionInventionRealisticFormalRealistic Fiction Author:Jess Walter
“I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.” WayArtSaidBehindsFictionPoetTruth IsJokesFiction WritersCorrectingManicWriters And Poets Author:T.C. Boyle
“I had a long writing history behind me before I got into anything in film. It comprehended science fiction, it comprehended historical, it comprehended, you know, just about everything that you can think of.” ThinkingKnowsWritingLongFilmBehindsFictionScience FictionHistoricalWriting History Author:William Monahan
“You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.” MadeMatterBehindsFictionReaderSceneMade ItGuise Author:Rob Roberge
“As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?” PastBehindsFictionDoorsMinesBlowBehind YouPreoccupationFiction WritersLeaving The Past Author:Dani Shapiro
“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” ShouldFeelingsFilmEmotionBehindsFictionDirectorsMoodFilmmakerMovieThemeFilmmakingProgressionFilm DirectorsMovie DirectorRelay RacesFilm DirectingDirecting FilmIndependent Filmmaking Author:Stanley Kubrick