“The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.” SexFictionRolesGoneTakenHeroFemaleCompetitionEndureMalesThemeSurvivorSurviving Author:Warren Farrell
“We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it. We endure and go on to do interesting things and have worthy lives, even though we carry our heartbreaks with us. That's a kind of personal story of mine that I don't think I would tell in memoir but I do think I can tell in fiction.” ThinkingHeartKindI CanStoriesInterestingFictionMinesBrokenGoes OnEndureWorthyLove StoryMemoirDestroyedInteresting ThingsPersonal Stories Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.” MindFictionQualityEndureProseNon Fiction Author:Robert Caro
“I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among many non-fiction writers that the narrative is terribly important.” ImportantBookFeltUnderstandingFictionEndureNarrativeNon FictionFiction Writers Author:Robert Caro
“The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.” DifferentCountryLyingInterestCommunityNaturalFictionPolicyEndureInternationalForeign PolicyInherentGeographyInternational CommunityDifferent Countries Author:Charles Krauthammer