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“Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.”

Ifs Culture Fiction Majors Concern Violent Dystopian Escapism Dystopian Fiction Enamored Violent Death

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.”

Source: Road to Science Fiction 2

“Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'”

Ifs World Answers Fiction Concern

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.”

Writing Said Fiction Majors Concern Males Paradox Cosmic Impersonate

Author:Erica Jong

“... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.”

Humans Fiction Mystery Concern Human Life Fiction Writers

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.”

People World Made Certain Force Interesting Fiction Novel Psychology Concern Concerned Philosophical Sociology Sociologists Philosophical Questions

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Facts Pay Attention Fiction Novel Reader Moon Research Concern Blue Science Fiction Setting Settings Accurate Jupiter Blue Moon

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.”

People Thinking World Way Writing Real Fiction Modern Concern Real World New Ways Catastrophe Dilemma

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of the world changes depending on its arrangement into one narrative or another.”

World Real Facts Fiction Effects Concern Narrative Arrangements

Author:Ben Lerner

“I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.”

Should Pleasure Fiction Principles Novel Percent Concern Committed Not Interested

Author:Martin Amis

“My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern for me, as for many people, but it's nowhere near as central to the culture as it used to be.”

People Way Used Culture My Own Fiction Areas Concern Passionate Used To Be Margins

Author:Matthew Specktor

“Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that is actually merely a simplified, almost insulting judgment of the book by its cover - or rather by the name and origin of its author - an act of discrimination if we want to say it in a more provoking way, but at the least an act of ignorance and false empathy.”

People Ifs Way Want Book Courses Names Forget Fiction Ignorance Judgment Empathy Concern Discrimination Provoking Insulting Sales People

Author:Sasa Stanisic