“...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.” PeopleThinkingWantWritingHumansPersonsBookRealSelfCharacterCareSoundFictionSituationReaderPaperInstitutionsTiredDon't CareMeaningfulReal LifeSuspenseCodeTensionSelf RespectFascinatingThreateningDollsDilemmaI'm TiredImmoralityVictorianNo RespectBooks And MoviesAmorality Author:Olive Ann Burns
“In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.” IfsWayI CanCareSpaceFictionProseI CareVividUnlocking Author:Ben Marcus
“I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.” BelieveCareFilmCoursesI BelieveFictionTeachBalanceTake CareDocumentaries Author:Arnon Goldfinger
“As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.” HeartEndsCareRomanceLyingStuffJusticeFictionMoralFineReaderLessonsConversationEssenceRevengeHungryMannersGood ManRepentanceSentimentsGood Manners Author:Alberto Manguel
“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
“You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth of it is that when you're talking to those people, you don't care about your movie anymore. You just want to hear about what they have gone through. You want all of the details. It's amazing.” PeopleWantWritingRealWholeCareFictionTalkingGoneDetailsDon't CareReal Life Author:Alfonso Cuaron
“What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own? Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb, Appal the surest hour that life bestows. Serence, and master of yourself, prepare For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.” IfsMayEyeCareHeavenGrowsEnjoyHoursFictionMastersSpringBlindMortalsMisfortunesPaleWoeTormentWombHideousIngenious Book:John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice Source: John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice
“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.” IfsWritingLittlesPhilosophyCareReadingSexFictionNovelViolenceClothesNotesGuiltyDescriptionPlotAdvancementCliffsAdvancingFeastingReading Fiction Author:George R. R. Martin
“Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.” ArtCareSocialFictionSafeImportanceSakeSlogansRust Book:Strong opinions Source: Strong opinions
“You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.” IfsArtCareLanguageDifferencesFictionSentencesConstructionNon FictionArtificeArt And Life Author:Ethan Canin
“But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives.” PeopleArtCharacterCareDiesFictionCryBasesFakeParadox Author:Michael Gruber
“When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's a different story. In my fiction I am more reckless. I don't care about the real world until I am done with the book.” ThinkingWorldWritingBookDifferentRealDoneStoriesCarePoliticalFictionImpactDon't CareI Don't CareReal WorldRecklessWriting Fiction Author:Elif Safak
“Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.” LooksMeanCareChoicesForceFictionMeditationCuttingShareAbsolutesScience FictionExtremesWideCoffeeHipsSpouseJeansZealMountaineeringGreat Coffee Author:Virginia Postrel
“If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance - anything you can find, strolling the aisles of a Borders or a Barnes & Noble, I can bring you many comic books representing each genre.” IfsI CanBookWarCareRomanceFictionTalkingFantasyHorrorScience FictionDon't CareNobleComicGenreI Don't CareBordersComic BookRepresentingStrollingAisle Author:Michael Uslan
“Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.” KindCareFictionDangerPoetBecomingFiction Writers Author:John Updike
“Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in books that are just clever and well executed; polish doesn't impress me, and I don't care about a merely capable sentence. Life is short; I want a confrontation with high art. I want soul.” WantWellsArtBookSoulSometimesCareLife IsReadingDifficultFictionCapableDon't CareSentencesCleverContemporaryI Don't CareNot InterestedImpressLife Is ShortPolishConfrontationContemporary FictionHigh ArtPeak Experiences Author:C.E. Morgan
“As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A, B, C, D, and then E. I like the aura that fiction has, how it can conjure up dream imagery. It's a sort of emotional speculation that you can shape and work with.” ThinkingDreamCareFictionSituationEmotionalShapesTrainNarrativeSpeculationImageryFiction WritersAuras Author:Oscar Hijuelos