“Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.” RealBodyLanguageRealizingFictionFiveSixSenses Author:Bodhidharma
“Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.” MindPlayCharacterRealizingImaginationFictionClassAidsDrawingAmusementHalt Author:C. A. Bartol
“A lot of people mistake the persona that I create in poetry and fiction with me. A lot of people claim to know me who don't really know me. They know the work, or they know the persona in the work, and they confuse that with me, the writer. They don't realize that the persona is also a creation and a fabrication, a composite of my friends and myself all pasted together.” PeopleKnowsTogetherRealizingMistakeFictionCreationMy FriendsClaimsKnow MePersonaFabricationComposites Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become real and happen in the world. And fantasy comes along and says, 'We're going to break all the laws of physics.' ... Most people don't realize it, but the series of films which have made more money than any other series of films in the history of the universe is the James Bond series. They're all science fiction, too - romantic, adventurous, frivolous, fantastic science fiction!” PeopleWorldArtMadeIdeasRealHappensFilmLawUniverseRealizingFictionBreakFantasyImpossibleScience FictionSeriesPhysicsFantasticMore MoneyAdventurousFrivolousLaws Of Physics Author:Ray Bradbury
“In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.” RealizingFictionTechniqueDevicesNonfictionCompellingIdentical Author:Kathleen Rooney
“Back in the day, a lot of our instructors in nonfiction were actually fiction scholars. So they would bring in stories as models for the essay. And in some ways that's a good idea, because we can all learn from other genres. But I think it also made me realize that I literally didn't have an essay model, and that if I wanted one I would have to find it.” IfsThinkingWayMadeIdeasStoriesWantedRealizingFictionModelsGenreGood IdeasNonfictionScholarEssaysInstructorsBack In The Day Author:John D'Agata
“For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.” WritingYearsLongDreamOpportunityRealizingFictionChildhoodCrimeLong TimeTrialsWorking ItCrime FictionCourtroomChildhood Dreams Author:Marcia Clark
“I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there's nothing out there in fiction about blended families.” TwoKidsRealizingFictionWifeMarriedMy Wife Author:Jeff Probst
“Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, through our own abandoned story drafts. After writing twenty pages about a harmonious family picnic, say, or a well-received rock concert, we discover that a story without a complication flounders, no matter how lovely the prose. A story needs a point of departure, a place from which the character can discover something, transform himself, realize a truth, reject a truth, right a wrong, make a mistake, come to terms.” NeedsWritingWellsMatterCharacterStoriesCoursesReadingTermRealizingMistakeFictionRocksPagesTwentiesFundamentalsVery GoodLovelyProseRejectsConcertsAbandonedHarmoniousGood StoryDepartureWorkshopsFiction WritingComplicationPicnicsRock Concerts Author:Monica Wood
“It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.” WritingKindStoriesRememberRealizingFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionWriting Stories Author:Wendell Berry