“I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.” IfsHas BeensArtAbleFictionNarrativeFilmmakerVisualsCartoonistVisual Art Author:Jonathan Lethem
“My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.” ArtistMy OwnFictionMomMy MomVisuals Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite.” PeopleArtCharacterSocialPleasureFictionAudiencePaintingApproachMajorityCrowdsNarrativeVisualsPlotMelodyElitesRhymeFavourSculptureMeterExcludedElitismEdification Author:Steven Pinker
“I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.” WritingI CanFoundFictionScience FictionVisualsLazyLackingShorthandSpecificity Author:William Gibson
“I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.” ThinkingWorldImportantCharacterScienceArtistFictionFantasyAspectScience FictionVisuals Author:Margaret Weis
“I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows me to embrace the visual world that I love. It's allows me to interact with people, to be more social than fiction or poetry, and it felt like the right way for me to tell the stories that felt pressing to me.” PeopleWorldWayStoriesSocialFeltFictionEmbraceBest WayVisualsFilmmakingRight Way Author:Lena Dunham