“I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.” WayHas BeensFictionRolesIssuesExpectationsMotherhoodNonfictionConsumedFiction And NonfictionSocietal Expectations Author:Ayelet Waldman
“I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.” HumansFictionIssuesHorrorScience FictionMonsters Author:J. J. Abrams
“We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then) bold use of fiction and graphics so declaring. We operated on a shoestring and still got our issues out on time. In short, we had a ball.” MadeStillsSelfUseSexFeltFictionIssuesInvolvedHealthyBallsMagazinesReviewsDeclaring Author:Barney Rosset
“In my world of the people who study war and defense issues, we simply did not talk about robotics. We do not talk about it because it's seen as mere science fiction. It's cold, hard, metallic reality.” PeopleWorldWarHardRealityFictionStudyIssuesColdScience FictionMereDefenseRoboticsMetallic Author:Peter Singer
“History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.” IfsLooksSoundFictionIssuesScience FictionSandRoboticsAutonomous Author:Peter Singer
“Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.” ShouldWritingBelieveImportantStoriesTodayFallI BelieveChallengesFictionIssuesReaderConflictTraditionUniversalSouthRaisedNostalgiaSettingContemporarySettingsThemeRegionsSouthernRelevantTrapsBelievableDialectImportant Issues Author:Mary Alice Monroe
“Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.” My OwnFictionIssuesEventsApproachToolsVarietyMy Own Life Author:Phil Klay
“Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I here? What is it that makes me who I am? Those are the kind of questions my favorite science fiction films ask.” ThinkingKindHelpingFilmPurposeAsksFictionIssuesScience FictionMy FavoriteWho I AmHopefullyRelateGreat Science Author:Joseph Kosinski
“Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus as open to "critique" as any other art form. Memoir has a form, formal strategies, issues of composition and craft, style, structure, all the elements of fiction or nonfiction or painting or music or what have you.” ArtReasonFormWaterFictionIssuesStylePaintingElementsStrategyStructureMemoirCraftsNonfictionCompositionFormalPreciseCritiqueChronology Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I used to. By seeing what kinds of thinking are going on in short fiction. I was also surprised by the panic I've felt, especially at first, when we'd put an issue to bed and then realized we had to put another one together.” ThinkingFirstsKindTogetherUsedReadingFoundFeltPleasureFictionIssuesSeeingBedExpectedPanic Author:Lorin Stein
“Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.” KnowsI CanRealFactsProblemBigsKidsStuffDifferencesLinesFictionBoysGrowing UpIssuesGrowingCrazySeriousIndustryEntertainmentHandleSpillsEntertainment IndustryBlurrySerious IssuesNewsworthyFact And Fiction Author:Rob Lowe
“I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.” KnowsWritingUseMy OwnFictionIssuesUnconscious Author:Janet Fitch
“In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.” PeopleSometimesFictionIssuesParamount Author:Tim Winton
“One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play out on real people's lives, with real individuals.” PeopleDoeRealPlayBigsPoliticalIndividualFictionMoralIssuesOne ThingBig PicturePolitical Change Author:Ben H. Winters
“In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them, then you are reduced to writing about spectacular unreal people. You know, James Bond or something, and you cook up adventures.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingFictionDemocracyIssuesCenturyAdventureOrdinaryCooks21st CenturyOrdinary PeopleSpectacularUnreal Author:John Updike
“I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.” LiteratureCommunityNumbersFictionIssuesPiecesGay1960sGay PrideGay Community Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde