“Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the world of erotic fiction. [on Pleasures of the Night ]” WorldNightPleasureFictionFantasyTalentReaderUniqueEroticFantasy Worlds Author:Toni Blake
“By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite.” PeopleArtCharacterSocialPleasureFictionAudiencePaintingApproachMajorityCrowdsNarrativeVisualsPlotMelodyElitesRhymeFavourSculptureMeterExcludedElitismEdification Author:Steven Pinker
“Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful horrific conceptions make every one of his tales a pleasure to read.” CharacterStarsPleasurePowerfulFictionStyleTalesContemporaryConceptionHorrificPortrayal Author:S. T. Joshi
“Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.” FeelsReadingPleasureFictionNonfictionReading Fiction Author:Peter Morgan
“A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.” BookVoicePleasureFictionFascinating Author:Alaa Al Aswany
“I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.” NeedsPleasureFictionResearchOpeningGenreNonfictionChaptersThrillersFiction And NonfictionThriller Genre Author:Dan Brown
“When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.” ReadingMy OwnPleasureFictionMysteryMaterials Author:David McCullough
“I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus.” KnowsWayFeelsWritingKindMovingLinesPleasureLevelsSecretFictionFocusCapableWoodsMoving ForwardRoughBuilderCathedralsCaterpillarsRough Drafts Author:Karen Russell
“I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.” ShouldPleasureFictionPrinciplesNovelPercentConcernCommittedNot Interested Author:Martin Amis
“It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters - which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your children. But also to love the reader, and that's what I mean by the pleasure principle.” PeopleThinkingMeanChildrenCharacterSoundPleasureFictionPrinciplesLove YouReaderOur ChildrenAcknowledgeNovelistsYour ChildrenOnly LoveLove Your Children Author:Martin Amis
“Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage.” GivingPurposePleasureFictionGive MePerformingMetaphysicsInsert Author:Norman Lock
“I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or her life writing fiction, it is hardly surprising that the pleasures, worries, and mechanics of fiction-making should enter the work.” ShouldWritingNaturalPleasureFictionWorryStorytellingSurprisingStorytellerMechanicWriting Fiction Author:Norman Lock
“I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I used to. By seeing what kinds of thinking are going on in short fiction. I was also surprised by the panic I've felt, especially at first, when we'd put an issue to bed and then realized we had to put another one together.” ThinkingFirstsKindTogetherUsedReadingFoundFeltPleasureFictionIssuesSeeingBedExpectedPanic Author:Lorin Stein
“The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep immersion in the same long work and its growing complexity. I suppose you might say I love to wallow in my characters and imaginary worlds. I love to play with the whole necklace, not just one glittering stone.” WorldLongDoePlayWholeCharacterMightPleasureFictionRichGrowingStonesSatisfactionComplexityJust OneImaginaryNecklacesImmersionImaginary WorldLong Deep Author:Vera Nazarian
“Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.” WritingPleasureExistenceFictionNovelGrewPersonal ExperiencesWriting Fiction Author:Danielle Trussoni