“Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.” PeopleLosesFictionFantasyCostConceptsMediocre Book:Danse Macabre Source: Danse Macabre
“As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.” MomentsRealityLosesFictionIllusionLogicalConsistencyRenounce Book:Tarrying with the negative: Kant, Hegel, and the critique of ideology Source: Tarrying with the negative: Kant, Hegel, and the critique of ideology
“I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.” WorldWritingI CanLosesFictionBecause I CanWriting Fiction Author:Roxane Gay
“You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.” IfsPersonsBookWholeEyeLosesAttentionFictionIgnoranceReaderScience FictionPay AttentionEngineersSpoilBlinkChemistAnthropologistsBlink Of An Eye Author:Robert Caro
“There are people you do not want to upset in the world - the politically disenfranchized who feel they have nothing to lose, those who feel that the time has come for revolution ... then out on the edges beyond any of those are science fiction fans whose favorite show has been canceled in an untimely way.” PeopleWorldWayWantFeelsHas BeensShowsLosesFictionFansRevolutionScience FictionEdgesUpsetNothing To Lose Author:Neil Gaiman