“If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.” IfsWorldForceFictionClassMiddleFinishedMiddle ClassAngstGrapplingMiddle Class Family Author:J. M. Ledgard
“Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book.” FirstsBookIdeasStoriesCoursesForceResultsFictionNovelTakenPiecesPerformancesScience FictionMythCoreContactPeterShockingProvocativeFirst ContactMesmerizing Author:Karl Schroeder
“To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.” ThinkingWayForceCan DoFictionPiecesReaderHigherIdealsLaysMy WayWay Of Thinking Author:Gene Stratton-Porter
“I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.” WantForceFictionEntertainmentContemplation Author:Gary Shteyngart
“Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.” ShouldRealityLightForceFictionPossibilityShapesParticlesElementals Author:Ruth Ozeki
“In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.” PeopleThinkingStillsAmericaForceFictionTomorrowScience FictionThinker Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“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.” PeopleWorldMadeCertainForceInterestingFictionNovelPsychologyConcernConcernedPhilosophicalSociologySociologistsPhilosophical Questions Author:Jonathan Lethem
“It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.” ImportantCharacterForceProcessFictionTerrorUnconsciousFiction Writers Author:Jeanette Winterson
“The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it is too seldom realized about books of fact. And yet the impulse which drives a man to poetry will send another man into the tide pools and force him to try to report what he finds there.... It would be good to know the impulse truly, not to be confused by the 'services to science' platitudes or the other little mazes into which we entice our minds so that they will not know what we are doing.” KnowsMenTryingMindLittlesBookFactsRealityWould BeForceFictionDesignUnderstoodPatternsBe GoodImpulseConfusedReportsControlledPoolTidesAnother ManMazesPlatitudes Book:The Log from the Sea of Cortez Source: The Log from the Sea of Cortez
“You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.” ForceFictionScience FictionRealising Author:Michio Kaku
“The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it's subject from it's deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream.” KnowsArtRealProblemDreamRealityForceFictionKnow HowSubjectsSweetReturnReaderHistoricalProfoundSurfaceContemporaryEncountersBrutalSpectatorsIdeologicalKitschContemporary ArtSweet Dreams Author:Slavoj Žižek
“Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.” LooksMeanCareChoicesForceFictionMeditationCuttingShareAbsolutesScience FictionExtremesWideCoffeeHipsSpouseJeansZealMountaineeringGreat Coffee Author:Virginia Postrel
“I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top. This is a different experience from reading a novel, I think. The emotional effect is cumulative. Let's just hope market forces don't send short fiction the way of the dinosaur, because their sales are paltry compared to the novel and this is truly unfortunate.” ThinkingWayKindDifferentEndsReadingForceFeltForgetFictionNovelEffectsNew YorkEmotionalFlowerHairSceneShotsDoctorsTrainPatientGoodbyeNever ForgetUnfortunateCowboySaying GoodbyeDinosaursCanyonsCumulativeDifferent ExperiencesChekhovHawthorne Author:Adam Ross
“My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.” ThinkingGivingEnergyForceFictionPiecesTeachingGive Me Author:Dana Spiotta