“Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing.” WritingI CanBookPassionFictionOne ThingCarterAngela Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.” ShouldMatterSeemsFictionOne ThingArgumentAgreeTeenagerLit Author:Robin Wasserman
“I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.” ThinkingWaySelfRealityFictionWatchesTechnologyTakenOne ThingMachinesScience FictionEmbraceCameron Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work.” WritingTryingKindLittlesCommonFictionOne ThingSentencesPoeticNon FictionFiction Writing Author:George Saunders
“We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing that they don't get is story. So I think whether you're talking about a biopic or an action film or a science-fiction film that has all the CGI in the world, if you're not trying to connect with an audience, it doesn't really matter.” IfsThinkingWorldTryingKindMatterStoriesActionFilmFictionTalkingAudienceOne ThingIntellectualScience FictionPropertyAccessAll KindsIntellectual PropertyArtifactsAction FilmsCgi Author:John Ridley
“People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.” PeopleWantFactsFictionOne Thing Author:Laurel Nakadate
“Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.” MenMadePurposeFictionOne ThingFocusedDeathbedCounterfeit Author:James Altucher
“I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but one thing I know for certain, and have known since the age of five or six, is that I really can't stand the God of Abraham. In fact, I consider him to constitute the pattern to which every true asshole I have ever known in my life has pretty well conformed.” KnowsYearsMindWellsIdeasFactsAgeCertainReadingFictionKnownFiveTroubleOne ThingSixScience FictionPatternsConfusedDeitiesAbrahamVery True Author:Michael Chabon
“I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction. I like science fiction where there's a scientific lesson, for example - when the science fiction book changes one thing but leaves the rest of science intact and explores the consequences of that. That's actually very valuable.” BookFictionOne ThingExampleLessonsConsequenceScience FictionValuable Author:Richard Dawkins
“Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand.” StoriesFictionOne ThingModelsKarmaNarrativeCausality Author:Jess Row