“In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.” ProblemDreamOrderSpaceNumbersCitiesFictionTechnologyImagineScience FictionIncludingNew Technology Author:Ray Bradbury
“When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it generally more cinematic. I would stick too closely to my own experience and not necessarily think about the fact that it needs to have an event happen. Realising that I could channel my own experience into a story that was slightly more cinematic was a very important moment for me - allowing myself to accept that the kind of screenwriting I'm doing is a work of fiction.” ThinkingNeedsWritingKindImportantMomentsFactsStoriesHappensOrderMy OwnFictionAcceptingEventsSticksScriptsAllowingRealisingScreenwritingCinematicImportant Moments Author:Lena Dunham
“A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.” RealityOrderHoursFictionPoetMissionsFiction And Reality Author:Isak Dinesen
“A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.” ThinkingWayWritingSaidTwoBookAbleOrderFictionGraceMinesCreaturesChaosPatternsNovelistsGutsFragileThreadSpidersEnviedSpunHistory BooksSemblance Author:Katherine Paterson
“When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.” WayNeedsFeelsWritingI CanSeemsOrderFoundFictionMake SenseWriting Fiction Author:Alice McDermott
“In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.” GivingYearsFactsStoriesLightFacesHumanityOrderStrongDarkFictionNovelViolenceWrittenBloodCrimeColdTerribleOffersQuietBraveBrilliantCaptureKillersHeroinesSerialsLight UpAftermathFusionSerial KillerDark PlacesDellBrave WomenFact And Fiction Author:Stephen King
“The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.” MayReasonRealityTruthRunningLyingOrderReadingAbilityFictionHonestyTruth IsAngerStrangerRationalThreadIrrationalBelievableStranger Than Fiction Book:Clearing the ground Source: Clearing the ground
“Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.” WayWritingStoriesUseOrderLanguageGivenHalfFictionSupportStyleMassAddBest WayMagazinesProseCentsEarningPurpleEnglish LanguageVerbsTagAdjectivesWriting StyleAdverbs Author:Tom Johnson
“The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.” NeedsOrderPayAttentionFictionPay AttentionProse Author:James Kelman
“I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.” NeedsKindOrderBornFictionFitStandardsAnd LoveScience FictionRaisedI RealizedCaliforniaVegetarianCommentBotheredScience Love Author:Aisha Tyler
“The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.” WayMindHumansChildrenUseShowsEarthFormOrderFictionFixedAssumptionUrgesServingHuman MindCaptureDividesSchemesParallelsChaoticUnrealFlux Author:Alfred Adler
“[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced.” WritingFactsStoriesHumanityOrderNaturalFictionTechnologyEffectsScience FictionDisturbanceNatural OrderFiction Stories Author:Edmund Crispin
“Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.” DoeTwoFeelingsOrderFictionDistanceDollarsEuphoria Author:Stanley Elkin
“We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist, is to re-describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create new paradigms for the future.” ArtistOrderBeliefFictionTasksScientistObservationAssumptionParadigmDescribing Book:A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre Source: A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre
“As an actress, I think I really understand that stage where you think you are picking reality in order to feed the fiction, but it happens to be the contrary. It's the fiction that suddenly feeds your reality. And you don't know how it has been done. That's the kind of magical transposition that is art.” ThinkingKnowsKindHas BeensArtDoneRealityHappensOrderFictionKnow HowStageActressesContrary Author:Ludivine Sagnier
“I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.” TryingUseOrderMemoriesFictionProduceBeing TrueNot Sure Author:Elia Suleiman
“That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.” KnowsCharacterStoriesOrderFictionKnow HowPoetCreatingStructureDevelopingNarrativeFiction WritersNarrative Structure Author:Edward Hirsch
“Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express the feelings of - express their own feelings and the feelings of their characters.” WayCharacterUseFeelingsOrderLanguageFictionDevelopmentMetaphorRhythmFiction Writers Author:Edward Hirsch
“I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than I, but who just can't write either fiction or drama. It's like any art-form. In order for talent to be developed, crafted, it's got to be there in the first place.” PeopleKnowsWritingFirstsArtFormOrderCoursesFictionSunCreativeTalentDramaIntelligentCreative Writing Author:Suhayl Saadi
“It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price.” IfsFeelsOrderNamesFictionEventsCreditNon Fiction Author:Nicholson Baker