“Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.” WayWritingCharacterPoliticalVoicePowerfulFictionOpinionWriting FictionPolitical Opinions Author:Jen Lancaster
“A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.” LossPowerfulFictionThemeVery Powerful Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.” HumansFactsLightPassionEnergyImaginationMemoriesPowerfulExistenceFictionVisionCreativeObjectsMaterialsIdealsRelationObviousIntenseConfusionFancyReachingFedsAssociationInwardRepresentationConstructsInclinationHuman ExistenceHabitualTransientBreadthCreative EnergySusceptibility Author:George Eliot
“C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in poetry. The song goes straight to the heart while the numbers and the math of it will never be able to reach that.” HeartAblePastSongSpeakPowerfulNumbersFictionMathDragonsSneak Author:Jon Foreman
“Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.” MeanPowerfulFictionBearsRiversOriginalsWitFearlessJoyfulBleakCadenceBeckett Author:Sam Lipsyte
“Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.” LittlesPowerfulFictionMost Powerful Author:J. G. Holland
“Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.” WorldTruthPowerfulFictionPleaseTruth IsMost PowerfulResemblance Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
“Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantWritingSelfFacesWishDealsPowerfulFictionGoneClearDoubtTheoryIntellectualToolsInstitutionsDiscriminationMost PowerfulNon FictionSelf-doubt Author:Bell Hooks
“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
“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.” FirstsStatesNationsUnitedPowerfulFictionUnited StatesTeachingBuildingToolsIraqAfghanistanVietnamInitialsVery PowerfulPhilippinesNation BuildingTeaching History Author:Miguel Syjuco
“Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness...The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date...a masterwork.” WorldStillsBookSoulLeftNaturalPowerfulFictionStruggleRocksImportanceBraveWesternCelebrateWildernessHandfulNatural WorldBassFiction WritersLyricalBrave Souls Author:Howard Frank Mosher
“Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.” WorldRealitySeemsTruthAbleMovingPassionPowerfulFictionPleaseTruth IsMovedAppearanceMost PowerfulResemblance Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.” StoriesPowerfulFictionNovelMysteryHistoricalInstanceVarietyCommonplaceDetestObscenityHistorical Novels Book:Strong opinions Source: Strong opinions
“A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the professional philosophers will almost all be forgotten, because they're just shallow and wrong, and their ideas aren't very powerful.” YearsImportantIdeasPowerfulFictionCenturyCoupleHundredScience FictionForgottenPhilosopherShallowTwentieth CenturyVery PowerfulFiction WritersIsaac Author:Marvin Minsky
“Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I am excited to write about the real world, to stay in it. Fiction is an escape, a parallel life, and it was a powerful source of comfort for me when my own life was raw and uncomfortable. I don't feel the burning need to disappear into a fictional character these days.” WorldWayNeedsFeelsWritingRealWholeCharacterPastMy OwnPowerfulFictionSourceComfortLonelyExcitedDisappearBurningThese DaysUncomfortableReal WorldParallelsMy Own LifeVery DeepFeeling LonelyFictional CharacterParallel Lives Author:Kate Christensen
“Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.” PowerfulFictionMythVery Powerful Author:Jeff Feuerzeig
“I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost can be a very powerful but also manipulative element.” ThinkingPowerfulFictionMoralElementsGhostLegacyVery PowerfulManipulative Author:George Saunders
“All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.” CertainPowerfulFictionAmount Author:George R. R. Martin