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“There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.”

Writing Believe Ends Bits Process Fiction Pieces Produce Argument Luck Nervous Controlled Worthwhile Breakdown Nervous Breakdown

Book:Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel

Source: Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel

“The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.”

Writing Two Reality Running Turns Choices Energy Fiction Mystery Produce Tired Former Conquer Reality Of Life Complexity Intimidating Two Choices

Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir

Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir

“It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.”

Feels Humans Seems Fiction Conditions Produce Human Condition

Author:Vivian Gornick

“We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.”

“I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.”

Trying Use Order Memories Fiction Produce Being True Not Sure

Author:Elia Suleiman

“Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.”

Bigs Fiction Objects Produce Periods Shots Ears Science Fiction Boxes Invention Code Dna Galaxy Cracked Pandora Chimera Pandora's Box

Author:Margaret Atwood

“In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text.”

Found Fiction Produce Dull Controlled

Author:George Saunders