“All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.” LawLyingNovelEdgesAmbiguitySharp Edges Author:Scott Turow
“In his exciting debut novel, Jerel Law transports readers to a place where supernatural forces of good and evil collide. Young readers will be entertained and inspired by Spirit Fighter. I heartily recommend it.” LawYoungSpiritEvilForceNovelReaderExcitingInspiredFighterGood And EvilTransportDebutCollideSupernatural Forces Author:Robert Whitlow
“[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'” FirstsLooksHandsLawUsedNovelWifeFeetResearchToolsHistoricalEightMy WifeInstanceOnlineBookstoresWilsonEncyclopediaSecond HandCertitudeHistorical NovelsBastille Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as no empirical law can ever be, philosophers have discovered that they are not absolutely novel - instead, they are tautological.” IfsMayLawRoomsResultsNovelMathematicsPhilosopherMathematicalException Author:Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
“The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.” MeanFactsStoriesLawTermFictionNovelAdvantageClaimsBoundsNarrativeAnalysisExplanationPoetry IsShort StoryVisionariesKinship Book:Stories Source: Stories
“Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.” LawNamesNovelPlanetsWorthyFloraFlora And Fauna Author:Francois Mauriac
“A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.” IfsFirstsMayArtMatterAbleLawPoliticalImaginationSinPoorFictionMoralNovelObjectsAliensControversyScope Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I'm particularly interested in this when teaching law students who often resist reading interdisciplinary materials or materials they interpret as too theoretical.” DifferentWarUseMightLawCertainReadingNovelTeachingStudentsMaterialsConversationGainsCapacityAccountsCriticalEngagementClassroomEngagingTheoreticalGraphicHurricanesAnthologyMethodologyKatrinaGraphic NovelsJournalisticHurricane KatrinaGentrificationLaw StudentsInterdisciplinary Author:Dean Spade
“The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.” IfsStatesUseGovernmentLawGrowthCan DoAbilitySecretLibertyTechnologyNovelClearGenerationsSecurityRegretUniqueCourtTreasureReformCombinationDigitalInterpretationPlusUnusualExpandingExclusiveSurveillanceOur GenerationDigital TechnologySurveillance StateSecurity And Liberty Author:Ron Wyden
“And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That that mapping is insufficient. That the world is instead some kind of a linguistic construct. It is more in the nature of a sentence, or a novel, or a work of art than it is in the nature of these machine models of interlocking law that we inherit out of a thousand years of rational reductionism.” WorldYearsBelieveKindArtMatterLawEnergySpaceNovelThousandModelsMachinesSentencesRationalWorks Of ArtConstructionThousand YearsConstructsTime And SpaceInsufficientMappingReductionismMatter And Energy Author:Terence McKenna
“I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like this! But at the same time, if it were presented to me: "John, you're going to write a novel. It's going to take you a few years. When you're done with it, there's a law that no one's allowed to read it." I don't think I would write it. I want someone to read it!” IfsThinkingWayWantWritingYearsDoneLawNovelReaderConsciousImpactHey Author:John Brandon