“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.” StoriesShowsSeemsBeliefEasyFictionStudyShapesIntellectualEvidenceArgumentMovedCriticalNonfictionSkepticalShields Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.” MenEarthCausesFictionLibertyMoralAtheismMastersIntellectualSlaveryPositive AtheismHeavenlySanctions Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.” MenMayHas BeensHardTurnsHalfFictionCareersWillingIntellectualTasksPrejudiceIntelligentLifetimeCriticsWaveExpensesContinuityReviewersIntelligent ManArthritis Author:Storm Jameson
“Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantWritingSelfFacesWishDealsPowerfulFictionGoneClearDoubtTheoryIntellectualToolsInstitutionsDiscriminationMost PowerfulNon FictionSelf-doubt Author:Bell Hooks
“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.” HeartRealityFictionMoralIntellectualAccountsTerrorTriumphApathyTransformedLazinessReignTestamentRuinedRemindersVisaTimelyAvalonReign Of TerrorIntellectual Laziness Author:Azar Nafisi
“The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.” IfsRealitySeemsReligiousSimpleFictionLoversConversationIntellectualTreatsStrangerAliensSeekersHigh Ground Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing that they don't get is story. So I think whether you're talking about a biopic or an action film or a science-fiction film that has all the CGI in the world, if you're not trying to connect with an audience, it doesn't really matter.” IfsThinkingWorldTryingKindMatterStoriesActionFilmFictionTalkingAudienceOne ThingIntellectualScience FictionPropertyAccessAll KindsIntellectual PropertyArtifactsAction FilmsCgi Author:John Ridley
“Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.” FeelsSometimesStoriesFictionFantasyIntellectualFeel GoodNarrativeHopefulInvestigationEscaping Author:Andrew Neel
“...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.” WritingJobsFictionIntellectualCowardWriting Fiction Author:Stephen King
“In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.” ThinkingWritingUseFictionIntellectualModelsStartingDiscourseProcedures Author:Susan Sontag
“If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally, then it's dead to me. When I'm reading other fiction writers, if I don't get any emotional investment from the writer, if it's just intellectual or clever - you know, most writing that passes as deep is just clever - I don't feel any connection.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingCertainReadingFictionEmotionalIntellectualConnectionsInvestmentConnectedCleverLiftsParagraphFiction WritersEmotional Investment Author:Oscar Hijuelos
“Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to challenge the accretion, the intellectual accretion, the philosophical secretion that generates within the edifice of white supremacy that allows people easy escape, and egress. And I'm saying, "No, you can't leave now. You cannot afford to not know what I'm talking about, because you gotta be held accountable."” PeopleKnowsEasyChallengesWhiteFictionTalkingIntellectualPhilosophicalMythNarrativeConstructionWhite SupremacySaying NoSupremacyWhitenessArtificeEdifice Author:Michael Eric Dyson