“Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.” FictionAliveWonderfulInternationalWaveScope Author:Colum McCann
“I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.” I CanBookFictionInternationalRelateTranslations Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international authors, poetry, and the other marginal but hugely important regions of the book world.” WorldImportantBookFictionFourInternationalObviousRegionsShyPublishersMarketplace Author:David Edelstein
“To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have indeed a spacecraft called an international space station. And we have the diversity of this planet working on that ship, including Americans and Russians working side by side. I think the imagineers are the ones that set the goal. And the inventors and the technicians see that as a goal to work toward, or the political scientists and the diplomats. And eventually, that's arrived at.” ThinkingRealityTodayPoliticalSidesGoalSpaceFictionPlanetsDiversityScientistScience FictionIncludingInternationalShipsStationsInventorAmazing ThingsDiplomatsTechniciansSpacecraftInternational Space Station Author:George Takei
“The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.” DifferentCountryLyingInterestCommunityNaturalFictionPolicyEndureInternationalForeign PolicyInherentGeographyInternational CommunityDifferent Countries Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.” ThinkingShouldAmericaCommunityViewsFictionVisionInternationalArrogantInternational CommunityFuzzyInternationalism Author:Charles Krauthammer