“The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it is too seldom realized about books of fact. And yet the impulse which drives a man to poetry will send another man into the tide pools and force him to try to report what he finds there.... It would be good to know the impulse truly, not to be confused by the 'services to science' platitudes or the other little mazes into which we entice our minds so that they will not know what we are doing.” KnowsMenTryingMindLittlesBookFactsRealityWould BeForceFictionDesignUnderstoodPatternsBe GoodImpulseConfusedReportsControlledPoolTidesAnother ManMazesPlatitudes Book:The Log from the Sea of Cortez Source: The Log from the Sea of Cortez
“This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.” NeedsImaginationFictionMysterySubjectsHorrorUnderstoodAidsHelpful Book:Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales Source: Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
“Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.” PeopleFormFictionMillionsUnderstoodDivorced Author:Terence McKenna
“Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.” RealityFictionUnderstoodConceptsScience FictionSpeculation Author:Michael Helm
“I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.” HumansFictionDoubtFailingConditionsUnderstoodNo DoubtHuman ConditionNever Quit Author:Richard Dawkins