“the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.” PeopleChildrenLightEyeNationsMemoriesFictionExampleParticularHabitGayWineDancingProfoundObviousAnalysisRootedPoliteGeographyGreat NationsPublic EyeEssayists Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin
“My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. Im drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.” BookFactsAnswersFictionOpinionHabitShapesMessagesHandleSteadyCautionObjectivity Author:Karen Traviss
“I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.” PeopleThinkingUseFormFictionReaderHabitGoogleSevereBlogs Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden
“I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.” PeopleKnowsBelieveBookValuesReadingLiteratureLostFictionParticularReaderHabitEntertainmentEnjoyedSentimentalFrivolousSentimental Value Author:David Nicholls
“I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed to be writing honestly from their own experiences, whether they presented it in the guise of fiction or not.” KnowsWritingReadingMy OwnFictionAdviceHabitFollowingHonestlyGuiseReading Habits Author:Kevin Keck
“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.” PeopleBelieveOrderFictionAcceptingHabitInventingWholeheartedly Book:The Sweet Far Thing Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.” PeopleWritingInterestDifferencesFictionPracticeHabitTrainingSentencesGapsNoticingFiction WritingPsychoanalytic Author:Amy Bloom
“No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.” PeopleIfsKindMightFormReadingLiteratureFictionHabitCleanEntertainmentWorth ReadingGood LiteratureBest Literature Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs