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“Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.”

May Fiction Exercise Capacity Imaginative Identification

Book:When I Was A Child I Read Books

Source: When I Was A Child I Read Books

“To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.”

Thinking Fiction Definitions Invention Superiors Realistic Imitation Imaginative Realistic Fiction

Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.”

Natural Fiction Science Fiction Defined Imaginative Natural Phenomena

Author:Hugo Gernsback

“Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.”

Challenges Fiction Environment Offers Pages Research Built Insight Ruins Range Interpretation Imaginative Cabins Skyscraper Pulp Probing Log Cabins Built Environment

Author:T. J. Jackson Lears

“Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a voyage that is both fiercely credible and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction.”

Doe Character Fiction Talent Science Fiction Complexes Storytelling Mature Imaginative Mike Voyages Credible Complex Characters

Author:David Brin

“... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.”

Years Two Truth Fiction Quality Novel Perception Hundred Universal Fifty Truth Of Life Imaginative Truthfulness

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.”

Writing Different Real Wanted Fiction Real Life Imaginative

Author:Danielle Trussoni