“I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.” ThinkingTwoBodyAbleCertainThreeVoiceFictionFivePaperProfessionFiction WritersSchizophrenic Author:Ridley Pearson
“As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.” I CanFeelingsTogetherPastUsedMemoriesFictionFiveRemainsBoundsVainNot SureSquaresCharmingVagueScrapAll That Remains Book:Nausea Source: Nausea
“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure some kind of permanence, if only in the history of the 1960s and of science fiction.” IfsFeelsWritingYearsKindBookSelfSometimesGrowsFictionFiveReaderHundredScience FictionCriticsDisappearOur TimeRepeats1960sPermanenceSelf IndulgentSlaughterhousesSlaughterhouse FiveBlather Author:Michael Dirda
“Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.” RealBodyLanguageRealizingFictionFiveSixSenses Author:Bodhidharma
“For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.” YearsStoriesFictionFiveHonestyConflictInjusticeCorruptionViolentTalesFairyFive YearsTreatmentRealisticFairy TaleBedtimeFive Year Olds Author:Richard K. Morgan
“Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishing how in so many of these books people seem to be able to remember conversations that took place when they were five years old and give three pages of coherent dialogue, which is utterly impossible.” PeopleGivingYearsBookUseSeemsAbleRememberThreeFictionFiveImpossibleSceneTenConversationPagesMemoirDialogueFive YearsConventionsAstonishingFive Year Olds Author:Paul Auster
“If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.” IfsLongTwoBookWould BeArtistStrongFictionFiveTenMarriedListsTalesEveningAfter DeathEvokeFiction WritersMarried LifeGail Author:Ned Rorem
“I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but one thing I know for certain, and have known since the age of five or six, is that I really can't stand the God of Abraham. In fact, I consider him to constitute the pattern to which every true asshole I have ever known in my life has pretty well conformed.” KnowsYearsMindWellsIdeasFactsAgeCertainReadingFictionKnownFiveTroubleOne ThingSixScience FictionPatternsConfusedDeitiesAbrahamVery True Author:Michael Chabon
“The first movie my dad ever showed me was Predator - I was five. And I think the second one was Jaws. I've has this understanding of fiction for a very, very long time but I've also had this thing where I've idolized the male action heroes because that's what I watched with my dad.” ThinkingFirstsLongActionUnderstandingFictionFiveHeroDadLong TimeMalesMy DadPredatorIdolizedAction Heroes Author:Katee Sackhoff
“I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution no matter what movie and see if there's a real discrepancy between people coming to see science-fiction films or superhero films. I seriously bet there would be no discernible difference.” PeopleIfsGivingYearsRealMatterWould BeFilmUniverseDifferencesFictionFiveNo Matter WhatScience FictionFive YearsSuperheroDistributionTake ControlDiscrepanciesDiscrepancies Between Author:Kenneth Lonergan