“You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.” WritingTryingLittlesDifferentTurnsFictionPerspectiveScience FictionDifferent Perspective Author:Kim Stanley
“If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.” IfsKnowsBelieveStoriesChoicesGivenFictionClearPerspectiveReaderNonfictionBiasDeliberate Author:Kathleen Rooney
“For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are told, every word in it has three score and ten "toptypsical" meanings - an exaggeration, of course, but an important reminder to readers who like their fiction definite.” ImportantThreeCoursesLiteratureTermFictionPerspectiveReaderTenScoreDefiniteRemindersExaggerationFinnegans Wake Author:Philip Kitcher
“It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.” IfsWritingWould BePoliticalDifficultFictionMoralPerspectiveIronicRealismCompassAbsentSuggesting Author:Joyce Carol Oates