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“Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.”

Source: Road to Science Fiction 2

“The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.”

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.”

Character Age Voice Views Fiction Novel Century Equal Importance Golden Narrative Excellent 19th Century Golden Age

Author:Joanna Trollope

“Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness...The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date...a masterwork.”

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Author:Howard Frank Mosher

“The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.”

Literature Fiction Clear Effects Sitting Importance Unity Productions Impression

Book:Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe

“Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.”

Art Care Social Fiction Safe Importance Sake Slogans Rust

Book:Strong opinions

Source: Strong opinions

“Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Important Ideas Ends Character Stories Fiction Wonderful Creation Importance Important Things Spectrum Good Story Fiction Writing Strands Infrared

Author:Alan Lightman

“I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.”

Thinking Littles Matter Stories Bits Waiting Rooms Deals Fiction Little Bit Importance Burning Short Story Association Topics Bad Ass Private Life Waiting Rooms

Author:Lorin Stein