“Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.” PeopleWorldArtMatterChoicesFictionAudienceSubjectsThickSubject MatterRetainingThick Of It Book:Living by Fiction Source: Living by Fiction
“Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.” MatterChoicesFictionSubjectsMoralityNarrativeNovelistsPlotSubject MatterBewildered Book:Outlander Source: Outlander
“I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.” ThinkingWayLooksBookMatterFictionGoneSubjectsPhotographMy WayPackagesSelectSubject Matter Author:Bret Easton Ellis
“Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal ills that we should talk about more than we do. And it's funny, of course, so we have that release valve with absurdism. It offers us a safe way to explore difficult subject matter.” WayShouldMatterCoursesDifficultFictionSubjectsOffersSafeElementsCoreAbsurdReleaseExaminationSubject MatterValveDifficult Subjects Author:Laurie Foos
“What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doing well in the culture. We're seeing more women writing dystopian fiction, more women writing novels set post-apocalyptic settings, subjects and themes that used to be dominated by men.” MenWritingWellsDoeMatterSeemsUsedCultureInterestingFictionNovelWrittenSeeingSubjectsSettingUsed To BeSettingsPostsThemeDystopianSubject MatterApocalypticDystopian FictionPost Apocalyptic Author:Laurie Foos