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“I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.”

Thinking Two Body Able Certain Three Voice Fiction Five Paper Profession Fiction Writers Schizophrenic

Author:Ridley Pearson

“To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.”

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.”

Real Body Language Realizing Fiction Five Six Senses

Author:Bodhidharma

“Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.”

Body Fiction Alive

Author:Colum McCann

“Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.”

Humans Wells Real Stories Body Action Fiction Painting Essence Human Body True Story Resemblance

Book:The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose

Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose

“I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.”

Men Trying Kind Long Ideas Body Hands Fiction Novel Audience Starting Good Ideas Standpoint

Author:Corey Taylor

“Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body arent always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.”

People Needs Mind Heart May Enough Shows Body Might Strong Fiction My Favorite Survivor Mind And Body Resilient Macho Strong Mind

Author:Claire Cameron

“Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.”

Firsts Mean Stories Body Romance Spirit Literature Fiction Class Civilization Eating Rounds Love Story Magazines Fourth Protein First Class

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena.”

Important Body Language Fiction Theory Periods Bridges Revelations Convenient Transitory Grappling

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.”

Writing Whole Body Courses Fiction Talking Involved Not Talking Manuals Typing

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.”

Body Fiction Shapes Science Fiction Donate

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“You've got the people you know, which are problematic. Always. They're rich but they're also real people living their lives alongside you. Then you've got the people that you make-up completely, who are often missing a dimension if they don't have some reference to real people. So strangers exist in this in-between space, where in not knowing them, you are creating a fiction for them, even in passing, but at the same time, there they are, with their actual bodies and their actual clothes. It's totally enticing.”

People Ifs Knows Real Body Space Fiction Knowing Rich Missing Creating Clothes Stranger Passing Passings Dimensions Not Knowing Enticing

Author:Miranda July

“Every once in a while a messy character who manifests a REAL body emerges, for instance, Lisbeth Salander - and certainly commercial genre fiction is full of examples of real bodied sexual encounters or violence encounters - but for the most part, and particularly if you are a woman or minority author, your characters' bodies have to fit a kind of norm inside a narrow set of narrative pre-ordained and sanctioned scripts.”

Ifs Kind Real Character Body Fiction Violence Example Fit Scripts Instance Narrative Genre Encounters Minorities Norm Messy Lisbeth Salander

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“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.”

People Thinking Feels Persons Body Reality Sex Felt Pay Attention Fiction Needed Demand Aspect Intention Gender Primaries Urgent Unreal Trans

Author:Judith Butler