“Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.” ReasonStoriesFormSleepFictionReaderComplexesMonstersTherapyReflectingComplex Relationships Book:Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Source: Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
“Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.” HumansHuman BeingsFictionReaderComplexesMainstream Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a voyage that is both fiercely credible and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction.” DoeCharacterFictionTalentScience FictionComplexesStorytellingMatureImaginativeMikeVoyagesCredibleComplex Characters Author:David Brin
“In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show. When you're reading a character's thoughts or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me that's what the whole point of fiction is.” FirstsKindPersonsHardWholeCharacterStoriesShowsAbleFilmReadingOpportunityFictionNovelTvsComplexesComplicatedInternalsTv ShowsFirst Person Author:Joe Meno
“Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological states and the symbolic knowledge encoded within the collective unconscious; things, events and conditions that are otherwise too diffuse and/or complex to be completely digested or appreciated by the prevailing culture.” StatesFactsActionCultureFictionConditionsEventsMethodHistoricalComplexesPsychologicalUnconsciousCollectivesEntertainingAppreciatedSymbolicDescribingExaggeratedPrevailingCollective UnconsciousHistorical EventsMetaphoric Author:Tom Robbins
“The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.” WorldWantInterestingFictionWake UpComplexesInteresting Places Author:Dean Koontz
“It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.” FeelsFeelingsRealityJobsFictionComplexesContradictionBrutal Author:Michael Helm
“I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon this philistine equation between literature and liberalism and human goodness, and pay some attention to the darker, ambiguous, and often muddled energies and motivations that shape a work of art. If we do this, we can appreciate a writer like Céline or Gottfried Benn without worrying whether they conform to existing notions of political incorrectness.” IfsThinkingWorldHumansArtIdeasSelfPoliticalMotivationLiteratureEnergyLinesPayAttentionFictionWorryShapesGoodnessAppreciateComplexesNotionLiberalismAbandonWorks Of ArtConformEquationsAmbiguousPhilistines Author:Pankaj Mishra