“I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.” PeopleWellsMadeReadingLiteratureEffortFictionSeriousOne DayDecidedScience FictionMagazines Author:Fred Saberhagen
“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.” BelieveDoePainBeliefEffortFictionDependsSightDisappearAnxiousSparesPromotingUnwillingOligarchyNo PainPlain Sight Author:Michael Lind
“Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It's very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.” ThinkingImportantRealWholeStoriesUnderstandingEffortFictionDistinctionRemoveTruestMidwife Author:Arundhati Roy
“In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.” WritingTryingLife IsLyingEffortFictionMemoirDelusionJustifyEpic Author:Sherman Alexie
“Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.” HandsEffortFictionMysteryFineEconomicsInvisibleGenreDetectivesPioneersIntegratingInvisible HandDetective Fiction Author:Tyler Cowen
“Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.” TryingArtTodayEffortFictionEmotionalDrawsBoundariesVainPoisonAestheticParodyPlunderKitschCatharsis Author:Theodor Adorno