“I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I got an idea which I thought was kind of neat for working in a mythological angle. I'm really struggling with myself. It would probably be a better book if I include it, but on the other hand I don't always like to keep reverting to it. I think what I'm going to do is vary my output, do some straight science fiction and some straight fantasy that doesn't involve mythology, and composites.” IfsThinkingKindBookIdeasHandsFictionFantasyStruggleScience FictionMythologyAngleVaryNeatOutputCompositesReverting Author:Roger Zelazny
“My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.” PeopleNeedsCharacterDesirePerfectInterestingFictionStruggleOur LivesAdversityInspiredBackgroundsHeroicRise AboveMost Interesting Author:Robert Crais
“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
“My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from painting to fiction and then finally to poetry before I could find the right way of telling this story.” WayLongStoriesFatherFictionStrugglePaintingMaterialsLong TimeImmigrantsPoetry IsRight WayEighteenRaw Materials Author:Philip Schultz
“The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.” FeelsHumansHeartPersonsMatterCharacterGoalFictionMoralStruggleSubjectsTearsNo Matter WhatNecksParadoxBeing HumanHuman HeartFiction Writers Author:Tim O'Brien
“I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much that is not that so I did a lot of other research and a lot of thinking, a lot of struggling there.” ThinkingMeanWarFictionStruggleEmotionalPeriodsResearchConnectionsKoreanVisceralKorean War Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I struggle with the fact that men's popular fiction is talked about differently. Books like mine don't get as many reviews and probably won't win any prizes, but they entertain the pants off of hundreds of thousands of women.” MenBookFactsWinningFictionStruggleMinesPrizeReviewsPants Author:Jennifer Weiner