“Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem to be lacking, the special effects alone are well worth the price of admission.” LifeWellsMaySeemsRomanceLife IsFictionFantasyComedyMysterySpecialEffectsDramaHorrorTragedySuspensePlotLackingDoseAdmissionSpecial Effects Author:Derek R. Audette
“There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.” GivingWritingRealRomanceReadingInterestDifferencesFictionFantasyMysteryParticularReaderHorrorScience FictionGenreCriticizeRealisticFlavorRealistic Fiction Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.” WayMayFactsMovingBehindsFantasyImagineMysteryAtheismPositive AtheismMysteriousSpiteImagine ThatMysterious Ways Author:Barbara Smoker
“There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre... plus a dragon.” WritingI CanCharacterRomanceCan DoFantasyMysteryDramaGenreDragonsPlusGood Character Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a mystery novel can't have fantastic elements in it. Similarly, there's no reason why your epic fantasy series can't have elements of a mystery.” ThinkingFeelsWritingRealReasonRealizingFantasyNovelMysteryElementsSeriesFantasticGenreReason WhyNo ReasonEpicMystery Novels Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.” ChristianRomanceYoungFictionFantasyMysteryAdventureOffersAdultsAppreciateScience FictionHistoricalYoung AdultContemporaryVarietySuspense Author:Randy Alcorn
“Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.” PeopleWritingStoriesLyingFictionFantasyHappenedMysteryEventsScience FictionWesternCoreUntrue Author:George R. R. Martin
“I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.” WantBookTermFictionFantasyWrittenTroubleMysteryHeroHorrorOriginalsTraditionalThrillersPulpLove To Read Author:F. Paul Wilson
“Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.” IfsStoriesRomanceFantasyMysterySeriousAgentsPublishers Author:Eden Robinson
“For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsBelieveRealityWalksFictionFantasyAliveMysteryStreetsWindowScience FictionScaredMythologyVersionsBlockGenreTwilightClosestLampsMistSilhouettes Author:Brit Marling
“Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.” FictionFantasyMysteryScience FictionCrap Author:George R. R. Martin
“I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.” ThinkingWorldKindFictionKnownWonderFantasyMagicMysteryPossibilityOrdinaryCommentEvokeOrdinary World Author:Kate Forsyth
“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.” PeopleLittlesArtEndsArtistFantasyMysteryPaintingBoringVagueness Author:Edgar Degas