“Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.” WayWritingCharacterPoliticalVoicePowerfulFictionOpinionWriting FictionPolitical Opinions Author:Jen Lancaster
“The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the purpose of explaining the different opinions which people hold on Divine Providence. ...This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths. I will discuss it as fully as possible; and I will also tell you the words of our Sages that suggested to me the explanation of this great poem.” PeopleImportantBookIdeasDifferentJobsPurposeFictionOpinionDoubtWonderfulMysterySubjectsDivineStrangeTreatsProfoundExplanationRemoveProvidenceSageExplainingDiscussingDivine ProvidenceDifferent Opinions Author:Maimonides
“My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. Im drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.” BookFactsAnswersFictionOpinionHabitShapesMessagesHandleSteadyCautionObjectivity Author:Karen Traviss
“The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.” ThinkingShouldMindSeemsActionTurnsActorsFictionKnownOpinionReaderMotivePrincipalInward Author:Sarah Fielding
“In my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What if?" is the question fiction asks. That's the question I'm more interested in.” IfsTryingTwoAsksAnswersFictionOpinionWhat IfNon Fiction Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.” BeliefFictionKnownOpinionFantasyImpossibleReaderCircumstancesJudgmentEssenceRegardScience FictionSubjective Book:Pandemonium Source: Pandemonium
“So much of what I am doing in my fiction is just trying to get into interesting places in terms of language or form, places that don't bore me. And this happens via hundreds of quick micro-decisions that are done "to taste," so to speak. So the experience is one of groping toward that interesting place - trying to leap away from anything that seems boring, or about which I don't have strong opinions. Essentially trying to avoid that moment where, devoid of any strong feeling, I start conceptualizing.” TryingDoneMomentsFeelingsSeemsHappensFormSpeakLanguageStrongTermDecisionInterestingFictionOpinionTasteBoringThat MomentLeapBoresStrong FeelingInteresting PlacesStrong Opinions Author:George Saunders
“I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction after all comes from a different, less rationally manipulable side of the brain. I am personally very attached to reactionary figures like Dostoyevsky, Hamsun, and Céline.” ThinkingShouldDifferentPoliticalLiteratureSidesLinesBrainFictionOpinionFiguresConceptionAccommodateReactionariesDostoyevskyApoliticalPolitical Opinions Author:Pankaj Mishra
“I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'” IfsThinkingMindArtMy OwnFictionOpinionWatchesHistoricalSeriesComplexityWorks Of ArtHistorical FictionGood WorkRichnessBotheredEmbeddedDelivering Author:Tony Kushner