“I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world seem like a richer place. The world is awfully short on joy and richness, and I think to some extent it’s the fiction writer’s job to salvage some of that and to give it to us in ways that we can believe in.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantGivingBelieveSeemsJobsJoyFictionTinyMeaningfulRichnessFiction WritersSalvage Author:Wells Tower
“The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.” KnowsWritingEyeJoyImaginationDifferencesFictionPureDiscoveringTravel WritingPure Joy Book:The Great Railway Bazaar Source: The Great Railway Bazaar
“... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.” FirstsPersonsRealCharacterFeelingsJoyUnderstandingEmotionFictionEssentialsElementsImprovementNovelistsMisfortunesEvokeFactualReal PersonSimplificationSuppressing Author:Marcel Proust
“I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.” WellsKindLongFactsJoyFictionStudentsLong TimeMachinesScience FictionMechanismInventingGreat Joy Author:Jack Kirby