“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
“I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.” WorldTryingHas BeensSelfRealityTurnsFictionClassTeamCarScience FictionSpendingDrivingEngineersGoogleWorld ClassProfessional LifeDriving Cars Author:Sebastian Thrun
“I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.” WayHas BeensFictionRolesIssuesExpectationsMotherhoodNonfictionConsumedFiction And NonfictionSocietal Expectations Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.” Has BeensMightHateCommonFictionAdventureConflictLonelyAgreementMight Have BeenLove And HateMusings Book:The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography Source: The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography
“In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature” YearsMindHas BeensEndsLiteratureFictionTreatsEnglandPraisePressesBritishBrilliantNewspapersKicksDecemberYear EndPushkin Author:Sylvia Brownrigg
“In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.” Has BeensFilmFictionMaterialsDirectorsDocumentaries Book:Hitchcock Source: Hitchcock
“Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions. But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.” WayMayMeanHas BeensFictionMillionsAvailableDisgustingHarvestVergeSpiritedPulpTarantinoMean SpiritedAbet Book:Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment Source: Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment