“Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned with people knowing exactly what I made up and what is real.” PeopleWantMadeRealStoriesFictionKnowingReaderConcernedHistoricalCaughtHistorical FictionCaught UpGood Story Author:Melanie Benjamin
“I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.” ThinkingWorldMomentsValuesFictionKnowingFragmentsEnabling Author:Ben Lerner
“Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.” TryingProblemLyingDifficultLinesFictionKnowingDrawsScience FictionPornographyAttemptingUndertakings Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“You've got the people you know, which are problematic. Always. They're rich but they're also real people living their lives alongside you. Then you've got the people that you make-up completely, who are often missing a dimension if they don't have some reference to real people. So strangers exist in this in-between space, where in not knowing them, you are creating a fiction for them, even in passing, but at the same time, there they are, with their actual bodies and their actual clothes. It's totally enticing.” PeopleIfsKnowsRealBodySpaceFictionKnowingRichMissingCreatingClothesStrangerPassingPassingsDimensionsNot KnowingEnticing Author:Miranda July