“People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.” PeopleThinkingWellsCharacterPoorFictionKnownGossipWell KnownColumnsGood CharacterPoor Character Author:Fran Lebowitz
“I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksSaidImportantWholeHappensPoorFictionRecordsHappenedTerribleCapacityImportant ThingsScience FictionHistory Of Science Author:William Gibson
“I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.” DifferentReadingPoorFictionSituationGrowing UpGrowingFansMovementHugeGrewKingsTasteGrew UpBeatsVariousSaneHuntersEssaysNon FictionPiersHunter's Thompson Author:Corey Taylor
“I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just because I got a couple of magazine jobs when I was really poor and needed the money and it turned out that non-fiction was much more interesting than I thought it was.” WritingStoriesJobsInterestingPoorFictionCoupleNeededMagazinesShort StoryNon FictionStory Writers Author:David Foster Wallace
“I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.” MeanFactsAblePoorFictionSourceSatisfactionFiction Writers Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.” IfsFirstsMayArtMatterAbleLawPoliticalImaginationSinPoorFictionMoralNovelObjectsAliensControversyScope Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.” MenKindWantedPoliticalGuyLeftSocialPoorFictionCollegeTypeDegreesWingsPassionateSociologySocial ChangePoor ManLeft WingVery RomanticType Of GuyRomantic And Passionate Author:Andre Dubus
“And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.” WantPersonsSoulActionNaturalPoorFictionVirtueSubjectsMaterialsLimitsTragedyContraryInstructionElegantLimbsEnviousDeflection Book:The Works of George Chapman: Plays Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“...The very word 'fiction' implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or a chef or a nurse. But the poor writer - the sci-fi one especially - is seen as running away. Bollocks. This is real, for me, and it's tough, it's fun, it's practical, and it's very, very important.” WorldImportantDifferentRealRunningFunPoorFictionToughClaimsPracticalsSci FiDedicatedNurseRunning AwayChefDifferent PlaceAnother WorldEscapingSportsman Author:Russell T Davies
“I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.” PeopleChildrenLittlesBookPoorFictionDefeatedHistory Books Author:Isabel Allende
“Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.” Has BeensCountryFunEasyPoorFictionSituationRegionsSouthernOutsidersVersusSuspiciousPoke Author:Barbara Kingsolver