“Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.” MayFictionExerciseCapacityImaginativeIdentification Book:When I Was A Child I Read Books Source: When I Was A Child I Read Books
“I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.” ThinkingImportantFictionCapacityImportant ThingsScience Fiction Author:William Gibson
“I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksSaidImportantWholeHappensPoorFictionRecordsHappenedTerribleCapacityImportant ThingsScience FictionHistory Of Science Author:William Gibson
“Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about identifying with and understanding people who are not necessarily like us. By nature all good novels are political because identifying with the other is political. At the heart of the 'art of the novel' lies the human capacity to see the world through others' eyes. Compassion is the greatest strength of the novelist.” PeopleWorldHumansHeartArtEyePoliticalLyingUnderstandingPartyFictionCompassionNovelCapacityCardsNovelistsIdentifyingHuman Capacity Author:Orhan Pamuk
“I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.” HumansFictionDyingCapacityGenreHuman CapacityLiterary Genre Author:Ben Lerner
“You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.” WritingSelfFictionRecordsPlanetsCapacityAbuseSpeciesStupidityDisasterCrueltyDeceptionIndifferenceRighteousnessAbsurditySelf DeceptionSelf Righteousness Author:John Irving