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“It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.”

Real States Seems Fiction Science Fiction Appetite

Author:Matt Smith

“Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.”

States Universe Fiction Mankind Science Fiction Casts Definitions Posts Confused Gothic

Book:The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy

Source: The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy

“In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which keeps the audience in a state of tense expectancy. Unfortunately for the fans, however, recent tests reveal that the wisp of chiffon which stands between the publisher and the postal laws has the tensile strength of drop-forged steel.”

States Law Fiction Audience Fans Possibility Hero Tests Shoulders Conventions Steel Publishers Tense Heroines Forged Pulp Expectancy Wisps

Author:S. J. Perelman

“The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.”

States Lines Fiction Traditional Enterprise Dividing Private Enterprise

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.”

Art States Use Feelings Form Fiction Expression Demand Ideals Variety Evolve Essays Presenting

Book:Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative

Source: Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative

“Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.”

States United Fiction United States Lows Oil Oil Price

Author:Dick Cheney

“Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development, and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness. What else can I say? Thanks for giving me the privilege of reading this.”

“Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction...it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.”

Men Writing Book States Felt Fiction Economic Kings Conscious Injustice Currents Strikes Dave Holograms Economic Injustice

Author:Elissa Schappell

“I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.”

Way Want Writing Trying Firsts Kind States Hands Seems Reading Interesting Fiction Steps Achieve Materials Computer Creating Mess Unconscious Most Interesting Non Fiction

Author:Jennifer Egan

“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.”

Firsts States Nations United Powerful Fiction United States Teaching Building Tools Iraq Afghanistan Vietnam Initials Very Powerful Philippines Nation Building Teaching History

Author:Miguel Syjuco

“The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.”

Country States Seems Easy United Fiction United States Democratic Various Fantastic Fiction Writers

Author:John Updike

“Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological states and the symbolic knowledge encoded within the collective unconscious; things, events and conditions that are otherwise too diffuse and/or complex to be completely digested or appreciated by the prevailing culture.”

“I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.”

People Ifs States United Numbers Fiction United States Example Exercise Myth Storytelling

Author:Yann Martel

“I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though.”

Book States Play Enjoy Fiction Green Comic Comic Book Superhero Arrows Hong Kong

Author:Celina Jade

“When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.”

Writing Believe States I Believe Fiction Novel Organized Poetry Is Floats Novel Writing Writing Fiction Writing Poetry Methodical

Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.”

Thinking Writing Said Hard States Courses Fiction Work Out Contemporary Chiefs Contemporary Fiction Amazing Work

Author:Jami Attenberg

“How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.”

Knows Mind States Past Differences Fiction State Of Mind Reconcile

Author:Douglas Adams

“I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a question of "this is written by someone with an MFA, and this isn't." I challenge anyone to identify a book in that way. It's totally impossible.”

Thinking Way Book Real States Challenges Fiction Impossible Written Effects Program

Author:Chad Harbach

“I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.”

Littles I Can States Reading Fiction Claims Currents Disenchanted

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and then push it to an even further absurdity. It's only in this light that we can see the reflection of the disturbing state of our present-day affairs.”

Feels Writing States Light Fiction Situation Normal Approach Reflection Affair Absurd Absurdity Disturbing Present Day Speculative Fiction

Author:Alexander Weinstein