“Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.” PeopleThinkingHardFeltRoomsFictionConflictConfusionJournalismContradictionInternalsCaptureAmbivalenceInternal Conflict Author:Amy Waldman
“I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.” WayWritingWantedChristianRoomsFictionImpressionPublishing Author:Sara Zarr
“I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.” PeopleWritingRoomsFictionNiceBunchYour Room Author:Daniel Handler
“The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.” WorldSongBornRoomsFictionRecordsNeededComputerPhonesChanging The WorldTied Author:Steve Jobs
“I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.” BeautifulLanguageFeltRoomsFictionCookingEnglish LanguageCookbookBeautiful WordsRoom Service Book:I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression Source: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
“They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel.” CoursesLeftHoursRoomsFictionTvsCivilizationScience FictionCartoonLiteracyProliferation Author:Dennis Miller
“Listen to others as if they are telling you the truth, ask questions when you aren't clear, and allow others the room to have different feelings than you. No more assigning hidden motives, prejudging and cutting people off before separating fact from fiction.” PeopleIfsDifferentFactsFeelingsAsksRoomsFictionClearCuttingMotiveSeparatingDifferent Feelings Author:Rhonda Britten
“I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.” KnowsWritingFirstsChildrenBookWould BeMy OwnRoomsFictionDoorsPrivacyFragile Author:Marge Piercy
“It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago when I did Running on Empty, and I sat in the room with all these writers. They wrote everything from novels to non-fiction to children's books to journalism - any kind of writing - and I realized that there was no one in the room who would ever read anything I'd written.” WritingYearsKindChildrenBookHardRunningRememberRoomsFictionMillionsNovelWrittenCoupleYears AgoEmptyWestI RealizedJournalismSatPensAwardsNon FictionScreenwritersChildren's Books Author:Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
“I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their living room and just hectoring at them all day long. But if you can create a space where people are caught up in something - whether it's a drama, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or science fiction - that's when people give over their minds and allow their emotions to flow.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantGivingTryingMindLongSpaceRoomsEmotionFictionComedyDramaFlowScience FictionCaughtEntertainmentCaught UpLiving RoomShowing Up Author:John Ridley
“I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.” ThinkingLittlesMatterStoriesBitsWaitingRoomsDealsFictionLittle BitImportanceBurningShort StoryAssociationTopicsBad AssPrivate LifeWaiting Rooms Author:Lorin Stein
“I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the magazine Double Room for that reason (contributors have to write about their ideas on the prose poem/flash fiction).” PeopleThinkingWantWritingStillsIdeasReasonTermInterestingRoomsFictionMagazinesProseDistinctionFlashContributors Author:Matthea Harvey
“[The Women's Room] is very much a white woman's piece of fiction, for sure. But for me, as a white woman, I related to a lot of it and continue to as I've gotten older, and especially at this moment in time, I want to read it again.” WantMomentsWhiteRoomsFictionPiecesRelatedMoments In Time Author:June Diane Raphael
“[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.” WayDifferentRoomsFictionPiecesIncrediblesDifferent Ways Author:June Diane Raphael