“The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.” GivenDealsNovelConcernPsychologicalRelevantThematic Author:Norman Spinrad
“I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.” ThinkingShouldWritingLongNovelAirHolyConflictConcernBreatheAttractionDisbelief Author:Flannery O'Connor
“This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.” PeopleThinkingCoursesMoralNovelBuildingConcernBlockMannersIntimateRitualRealisingOld FashionedAbolishInvestigatingBuilding BlocksConcern For Others Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to people. But that's not my concern. I'm interested in psychology. And also certain philosophical questions about the world.” PeopleWorldMadeCertainForceInterestingFictionNovelPsychologyConcernConcernedPhilosophicalSociologySociologistsPhilosophical Questions Author:Jonathan Lethem
“If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction.” IfsKnowsWorldGivingFactsPayAttentionFictionNovelReaderMoonResearchConcernBlueScience FictionSettingSettingsAccurateJupiterBlue Moon Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters.” WorldWayWantWritingStoriesPoliticalSituationNovelStrangePerspectiveHorrorCreatingConcernCommunicateMonstersEmbeddedSurrealismHorror Stories Author:China Mieville
“I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.” ShouldPleasureFictionPrinciplesNovelPercentConcernCommittedNot Interested Author:Martin Amis