“I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing that you can do - because of the ways that the real and the unreal weave together to create something that feels more true than anything.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingKindRealTogetherSpiritualCan DoFictionPracticeUnrealSpiritual Practice Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.” WritingBookRealDoneRealityFictionFantasyScience FictionUnrealDepiction Author:Ray Bradbury
“The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.” WayMindHumansChildrenUseShowsEarthFormOrderFictionFixedAssumptionUrgesServingHuman MindCaptureDividesSchemesParallelsChaoticUnrealFlux Author:Alfred Adler
“Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person's felt sense of gender was therefore "unreal." That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be. But I think I needed to pay more attention to what people feel, how the primary experience of the body is registered, and the quite urgent and legitimate demand to have those aspects of sex recognized and supported.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsBodyRealitySexFeltPayAttentionFictionNeededDemandAspectIntentionGenderPrimariesUrgentUnrealTrans Author:Judith Butler
“In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them, then you are reduced to writing about spectacular unreal people. You know, James Bond or something, and you cook up adventures.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingFictionDemocracyIssuesCenturyAdventureOrdinaryCooks21st CenturyOrdinary PeopleSpectacularUnreal Author:John Updike