“You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and you can buy into the small humor. If you want to make your fiction universal, go small. That's the best way to do it.” IfsWayWantFatherFictionCarSonHugeUniversalBest WayWarfareFather SonInterstellarLoving RelationshipsFather Son Relationship Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.” LooksFictionUniversalDeeperFiction Writers Book:A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction Source: A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction
“Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction” WorldWayYearsLooksCountryMomentsRememberFictionNovelGenerationsUniversalPoeticDefiningExaminationLandmarksComaBeijingDefining Moments Author:Tash Aw
“... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.” YearsTwoTruthFictionQualityNovelPerceptionHundredUniversalFiftyTruth Of LifeImaginativeTruthfulness Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.” ShouldWritingBelieveImportantStoriesTodayFallI BelieveChallengesFictionIssuesReaderConflictTraditionUniversalSouthRaisedNostalgiaSettingContemporarySettingsThemeRegionsSouthernRelevantTrapsBelievableDialectImportant Issues Author:Mary Alice Monroe