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“I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.”

Way Has Beens Fiction Roles Issues Expectations Motherhood Nonfiction Consumed Fiction And Nonfiction Societal Expectations

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.”

Children Fiction Expectations

Book:Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

Source: Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

“The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.”

Writing Faces Challenges Fiction Careers Reader Expectations Meetings Genre

Author:Julia Quinn

“And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.”

Ifs Want Giving Fiction Audience Crime Expectations Crime Fiction

Author:Tod Goldberg

“I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.”

People Thinking World Way Humans Fiction Expectations Ideals Human Life Garbage Ideal World

Author:Charlie Kaufman