“I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.” WayMadeDoneUseBigsSeemsFictionSituationOrdinaryScience FictionGenreCandyOrdinary ThingsScience Love Author:Rian Johnson
“There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.” PeopleWritingInterestingFictionNovelSceneOrdinaryMemoir Author:Augusten Burroughs
“I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.” PeopleThinkingWayGivingOpportunityFictionOrdinaryAppetiteSmarterNon FictionLimited Time Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.” PeopleTryingStoriesBigsRunningLiteratureMy OwnInterestingFictionEventsTasteOrdinaryTablesBe GoodKitchenParksThemeGroundedOrdinary PeopleGood StoryTrailersBackdropKitchen TableTrailer Park Author:Neal Stephenson
“Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?” MatterTogetherFictionIdentityCircumstancesOrdinaryNarrativeFragmentsConvenient Author:Ann Leckie
“In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them, then you are reduced to writing about spectacular unreal people. You know, James Bond or something, and you cook up adventures.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingFictionDemocracyIssuesCenturyAdventureOrdinaryCooks21st CenturyOrdinary PeopleSpectacularUnreal Author:John Updike