“To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.” ThinkingWayForceCan DoFictionPiecesReaderHigherIdealsLaysMy WayWay Of Thinking Author:Gene Stratton-Porter
“The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldIdeasWarHappensStrongStarsFictionFansFineShould HaveIndependentScience FictionBoxesMy WayVery StrongOutside The BoxIndependent ThinkingThink Outside The Box Author:George Lucas
“I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.” ThinkingWayLooksBookMatterFictionGoneSubjectsPhotographMy WayPackagesSelectSubject Matter Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department.” WayWritingFirstsLongHas BeensStoriesThreeFictionRiversBottomSentencesResistanceMy WayDepartmentEditorsShort StoryPrintedNew YorkersObjectionsOne Sentence Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.” WayWritingStuffFictionMy WayGenreSlips Author:Karin Tidbeck
“Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.” WayReadingFictionCrimeMy WayLifelongDetectivesHolmesDetective FictionLifelong Love Author:Stanley Bing