“I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.” PeopleWritingRoomsFictionNiceBunchYour Room Author:Daniel Handler
“My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time. He was always so frustrated having to work to support the family that I was like, I'm never going to do that. I don't want to just be working a menial job to support my family and dreaming of being an artist. We learn from our fathers in that way.” WayWantHardDreamWantedJobsArtistFatherFictionSupportNovelDadMy FamilyScience FictionMy DadRidiculousBunchPainterFrustratedSparesOur FatherBeing An ArtistSpare TimeFiction Novels Author:Rainn Wilson
“An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!” FirstsHumansLongImportantFictionCareersNovelWrittenSellsNotesAverageBunchFactorsHuman LifeNovelistsAcquireFortyTake TimeFormat Author:Charles Stross
“We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact, it's invention. Hopefully, an historical film will inspire people to go and read about the history but in the end it is a work of fiction and selection. As for the armour itself, no it wasn't particularly comfortable.” PeopleChildrenEndsFactsFilmFictionGrowing UpGrowingInspireTaughtComfortableHistoricalInventionBunchHopefullySelectionIlliterateArmour Author:Cate Blanchett
“Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex.” SexFictionBunchDirtySatireUrbanPumpsFrictionPulp Author:Norm MacDonald
“I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's starting to come out, and some of the fiction is really good.” WarReadingFictionPiecesStartingIraqBunchVeteranNew YorkersIraq WarAfghanWar Veteran Author:George Packer