“But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.” WorldWayWritingAttentionFictionStudentsEssencePay AttentionSensibility Author:Julia Alvarez
“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
“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 want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.” PeopleWantFeelsRealPayAttentionFictionPay AttentionMake Sense Author:Nick Earls
“More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.” PeopleIfsPayAttentionFictionTelevisionJournalismPay AttentionNarrativeProse Author:David Simon