“I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.” IdeasCharacterStrongFictionTelevisionFemaleScience FictionBranchesStrong WomenBizarreFemale CharactersStrong Female CharactersStrong Female Author:Steven Moffat
“[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.” RomanceStrongFictionScience FictionMythTendenciesInherent Author:Northrop Frye
“Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim?” IfsStoriesLightFightingWinningLeftStrongDarkFictionMysteryDrinkBedClaimsTrainChairsCompanionSubstitutesSlipsRemorseHangoverOpiatesStrong Drink Author:Mary Cantwell
“I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindDoeDifferentHappensStrongCommonFictionHusbandOppositesBasesThings HappenDevelopingEvolveMy HusbandMy Best FriendDifferent PeoplesCommon GroundOpposites Attract Author:Veronica Roth
“The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.” WritingBookCharacterStoriesFeelingsStrongDifficultVoiceFictionReaderFindingsResearchTasksSettingSettingsDevelopingPlotNon FictionWriting A BookStrong FeelingDifficult TasksDevising Author:Randy Pausch
“The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldIdeasWarHappensStrongStarsFictionFansFineShould HaveIndependentScience FictionBoxesMy WayVery StrongOutside The BoxIndependent ThinkingThink Outside The Box Author:George Lucas
“I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.” AmericaStrongFictionFemaleScience FictionListsTediousProtagonistsRegularityStrong FemaleFemale Protagonists Author:William Gibson
“In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.” GivingYearsFactsStoriesLightFacesHumanityOrderStrongDarkFictionNovelViolenceWrittenBloodCrimeColdTerribleOffersQuietBraveBrilliantCaptureKillersHeroinesSerialsLight UpAftermathFusionSerial KillerDark PlacesDellBrave WomenFact And Fiction Author:Stephen King
“Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body arent always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.” PeopleNeedsMindHeartMayEnoughShowsBodyMightStrongFictionMy FavoriteSurvivorMind And BodyResilientMachoStrong Mind Author:Claire Cameron
“[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.” IfsMenWorldHeartActionPassionStrongFictionHonestSpeechHumbleMuseNew LifeCrudeWorking Man Author:Frank Norris
“Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or and people said: "Wait a minute, he's actually smart and he knows what he's doing!" I feel that with Hostel, any time you make a film like that it's going to illicit a strong reaction and you can't worry about that.” PeopleKnowsFeelsSaidFilmStrongWaitingFictionWorryMinutesSmartReactionsPulp Author:Eli Roth
“Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.” SometimesEnoughSongStrongMemoriesFictionStrong Enough Author:Nick Cave
“If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.” IfsLongTwoBookWould BeArtistStrongFictionFiveTenMarriedListsTalesEveningAfter DeathEvokeFiction WritersMarried LifeGail Author:Ned Rorem
“My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.” WritingEndsStrongFictionNarrativePlotVery StrongTwists Author:Anthony Horowitz
“When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and always will be, and the hands of man, even when he fashions and defends the noblest civilization, must forever be bloody hands, for this is a world in which only the strong and resolute nations survive, while the weak, especially the morally weak, who babble about brotherhood and peace, are biologically degenerate and doomed to extinction.” MenWorldHandsStrongNationsFictionForeverFashionCivilizationRedWeakTeethBrotherhoodBloodyDoomedVeilsExtinctionClawsDegeneratesResoluteBrotherhood And PeaceBloody Hands Author:Revilo P. Oliver
“I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.” ThinkingWorldCharacterStrongFictionFansFemaleScience FictionMalesShortageFemale CharactersStrong Female CharactersStrong Female Author:Katee Sackhoff
“I researched fiction writing for months before I taught my first class, much of it looking for strong techniques from bestselling authors.” WritingFirstsStrongFictionClassTaughtMonthsTechniqueFiction WritingFirst Class Author:James Thayer
“The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's strong enough, and your spell is strong enough, then you become, like, ultra-magnetic and then everything comes to you.” IfsArtEnoughRealityStrongStuffFictionCreatingSpellsStrong EnoughMagneticHyperUltras Author:Watkin Tudor Jones
“There's no specific punishment in the books of fiqh (Islamic laws) that relate to homosexuality per se. They apply to any illicit sexual relations, including prohibited heterosexual acts like adultery. And the punishments are strong, but they are legal fictions because they are impossible to prove. You need four witnesses to say they witnessed (sexual) penetration. In what circumstances are you going to find someone to testify to that?” NeedsBookLawStrongFictionFourImpossibleCircumstancesProveRelationIncludingPunishmentWitnessRelateIslamicHomosexualityAdulteryPenetrationIslamic Law Author:Hamza Yusuf
“So much of what I am doing in my fiction is just trying to get into interesting places in terms of language or form, places that don't bore me. And this happens via hundreds of quick micro-decisions that are done "to taste," so to speak. So the experience is one of groping toward that interesting place - trying to leap away from anything that seems boring, or about which I don't have strong opinions. Essentially trying to avoid that moment where, devoid of any strong feeling, I start conceptualizing.” TryingDoneMomentsFeelingsSeemsHappensFormSpeakLanguageStrongTermDecisionInterestingFictionOpinionTasteBoringThat MomentLeapBoresStrong FeelingInteresting PlacesStrong Opinions Author:George Saunders