“He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you. And that if you steer things enough, things will, under your control, come right. And this is the fiction of the controller: a controller thinks that they can control their life into being what they want it to be. But their life will never be what they want it to be until they stop controlling, and that is their journey.” IfsThinkingWantEnoughCoursesFictionJourneyLove YouLove SomeoneSteersControllersIf You Love Someone Author:Julian Fellowes
“I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.” PeopleThinkingWayI CanRealFactsHelpingFilmMovingFictionSeeingJourneyChangedReal LifeUtopia Author:Gael Garcia Bernal
“I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.” ThinkingProcessFictionCreativeJourneyWildernessDickensDostoyevsky Author:William P. Young
“Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.” IfsThinkingEnoughCharacterWould BeTurnsFictionJourneyNew YorkCircumstancesPagesSittingVery GoodMetaphorHeavyContemporaryMainstreamThinking About Life Author:Karan Bajaj
“It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us is moving, changing, with respect to others. As we discover, we remember; remembering, we discover; and most intensely do we experience this when our separate journeys converge. Our living experience at those meeting points is one of the charged dramatic fields of fiction.” RememberMovingLinesFictionJourneyFieldsMeetingsDramaticInwardRespecting OthersStraight Lines Author:Eudora Welty
“I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.” WayWantBookEnoughGivenFictionJourneyGoes OnHeroTownsShoesMetaphorStrangerMemoirAdmireMy WayTeaDullPairsPotPieFloatingWant SomethingPolishCrumbsPoniesCorkDespondencyBreeders Book:Cloud Atlas: A Novel Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel