“Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, what if? All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.” IfsWayDifferentReadingChanceAnswersFictionReaderOffersDifferent WaysParanormalWhat IfEntertaining Author:Jeaniene Frost
“In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.” UsePoliticalLyingLanguageChanceFictionMoralEconomicFlowWarfareTacticsMobilityGuerrillasGuerrilla Warfare Book:Bodies of Work: Essays Source: Bodies of Work: Essays
“It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.” WayChanceFictionNovelPathCenturyPublishNineteenth CenturyNaturalismRamsTreadingTheodoreReticenceBattering Book:The Best Times: An Informal Memoir Source: The Best Times: An Informal Memoir
“Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.” StoriesFeelingsHandsLyingChanceFictionElementsCriticalDisplayFalsehoodThrillSleight Of HandDeepest Feelings Author:John Cheever
“We sometimes drive ourselves crazy with how our books will be "seen," when in fact we already know what they're about, and where our obsessions are. If we can spin those obsessions into fiction, then there's a decent chance they will be "fiction-worthy," as you call it. The idea of the "sweep of ideas" is a complicated one.” IfsKnowsBookIdeasSometimesFactsChanceFictionCrazyComplicatedWorthyObsessionDecent Author:Meg Wolitzer
“There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the statements that they wanted to make. Whether it was a science fiction film or whatever, b/c they were just making movie for themselves. Then there was a period where people were creating projects as their Hollywood audition 'pieces'. I feel that today we are moving back to the era where we all have our own voices.” PeopleFeelsMadeTodayWantedFilmMovingBlackVoiceChanceFictionPiecesPeriodsProjectsCreatingHollywoodScience FictionStatementsErasAuditionsMoving Back Author:Reginald Hudlin
“With fiction, and also with nonfiction that you can take your time doing, you have a much better chance of reaching across the divide and connecting with somebody who is opposed to you on some things. They're opposed to you on one axis, which is politics, but if you go over the axis called puppies, you might find some common ground.” IfsMightChanceCommonFictionReachingDividesNonfictionConnectingPuppyDoing YouCommon GroundAxesTake Your Time Author:George Saunders