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“In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.”

World Heart Whole Fiction Fields Building Grew My Heart Grew Up Whole World Fantastic Dragons Dungeons Dungeons And Dragons Building Things Close To My Heart

Author:China Mieville

“As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.”

Heart Ends Care Romance Lying Stuff Justice Fiction Moral Fine Reader Lessons Conversation Essence Revenge Hungry Manners Good Man Repentance Sentiments Good Manners

Author:Alberto Manguel

“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.”

Thinking Heart Kind I Can Stories Interesting Fiction Mines Broken Goes On Endure Worthy Love Story Memoir Destroyed Interesting Things Personal Stories

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in poetry. The song goes straight to the heart while the numbers and the math of it will never be able to reach that.”

Heart Able Past Song Speak Powerful Numbers Fiction Math Dragons Sneak

Author:Jon Foreman

“Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about identifying with and understanding people who are not necessarily like us. By nature all good novels are political because identifying with the other is political. At the heart of the 'art of the novel' lies the human capacity to see the world through others' eyes. Compassion is the greatest strength of the novelist.”

People World Humans Heart Art Eye Political Lying Understanding Party Fiction Compassion Novel Capacity Cards Novelists Identifying Human Capacity

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart.”

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Book:Letters of William Cowper; being a selection from his correspondence: with a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. [With a portrait.]

Source: Letters of William Cowper; being a selection from his correspondence: with a sketch of his life, and biographical notices of his correspondents. [With a portrait.]

“Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.”

Heart Long Has Beens Fiction Long Time Critics Amusing Heart Failure

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.”

Heart Fiction Lays Legends Layers Grain Hardened

Book:Life Blood

Source: Life Blood

“Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.”

Heart Art Lost Fiction Fire My Heart Sparks

Author:Rick Bass

“Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to capture your heart and find a place on your keeper shelf.”

Heart Character Romance Winning Voice Fiction Brilliant Contemporary Heat Capture Shelves Seduction Keepers Contemporary Fiction

Author:Gemma Halliday

“Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body arent always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.”

People Needs Mind Heart May Enough Shows Body Might Strong Fiction My Favorite Survivor Mind And Body Resilient Macho Strong Mind

Author:Claire Cameron

“I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?”

Knows Firsts Heart Stories Passion Fiction Lessons Iron Honour Maxims Remarks

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author

“[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.”

Ifs Men World Heart Action Passion Strong Fiction Honest Speech Humble Muse New Life Crude Working Man

Author:Frank Norris

“Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality. This account of lives transformed and ruined by the triumph of a totalitarian rule is a timely reminder of how moral and intellectual laziness and apathy can pave the road to the reign of terror brought on by such a system.”

Heart Reality Fiction Moral Intellectual Accounts Terror Triumph Apathy Transformed Laziness Reign Testament Ruined Reminders Visa Timely Avalon Reign Of Terror Intellectual Laziness

Author:Azar Nafisi

“Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.”

Heart Lying Fiction Growing Up Growing My Heart Adults Speculative Fiction

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.”

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Author:Tim O'Brien

“When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.”

Want Writing Trying Heart Character Stories Fiction Reader Messages Memorable

Author:Isabel Allende

“I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space. I like Lorrie Moore. Amy Hempel. Tim O'Brien. Raymond Carver. All the heartbreakers.”

Heart Stories Song Reading Space Answers Fiction Raises Pops Short Story Amy Pop Song Cupcakes Carver Polaroids Heartbreaker Tim O Brien

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.”

Heart Fiction Trouble Gossip

Author:John Dufresne

“I was 45 when I wrote most of this book [Hungry Heart ], at what felt like a halfway point in my life, and I thought, If I can't be honest now, when will it happen? It was so hard to step away from the [protection of] fiction, but I'm ready to talk start telling their truth.”

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Author:Jennifer Weiner