“A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.” KnowsDreamCuttingColdReaderFleshNightmareBladesInjuredSeparatingCalculatingLucid Dreaming Author:Del Howison
“I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.” ThinkingMayImportantBookDreamLosesNumbersNovelWrittenReaderMy FavoriteFinestFear Of DeathTributeSomewhere In Time Author:Richard Matheson
“History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves.” ThinkingWorldShouldWritingImportantPlayUseShowsDreamMoralHistoryReaderDisciplineErrorsReactionsTendenciesFalsehoodVersusMixturesWhat's ImportantWriting HistoryPower Play Book:Heart Mountain Source: Heart Mountain
“The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably conclude that, if the eyes of the spectators have sometimes been deceived by fraud, the understanding of the readers has much more frequently been insulted by fiction.” IfsSometimesDreamEyeUnderstandingFictionHistoryReaderMiracleCalmPhilosopherFraudSuspicionDeceivedSpectatorsRoman EmpireInsultedProfaneOmenProdigies Book:History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus
“Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.” LooksDreamMinesPoetReaderCurious Author:W. H. Auden
“A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.” WantKindStoriesDreamLostReaderEaseInvitesSuperficialSlides Author:Steven Erikson
“Eve Byron has a permanent place on my must-buy list. Her characters are three-dimensional men and women who live on in readers' hearts long after they've turned the last page. ONLY IN MY DREAMS is pure Eve Byron, which means it's a pure delight. I fell in love with Lorelei and Dane, two of the most delightful characters I've encountered in a very long time. Byron's magical touch never falters. ONLY IN MY DREAMS is a surefire hit!” MenHeartMeanLongTwoCharacterDreamLastsThreeReaderPurePagesLong TimeMen And WomenDelightListsPermanentDelightfulByron Author:Barbara Bretton
“I really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In other words, be true to your own dreams and there will always be people who want to hear them.” PeopleWantBelieveDreamVisionReaderEnormousBeing TrueAppetiteOriginality Author:Clive Barker
“We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.” KnowsLittlesDreamReaderVery GoodDearSundayShort Time Author:Orhan Pamuk
“My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.” WorldWritingTryingLittlesDreamRealityBlackMy OwnWhiteReaderUnderstoodAbsolutesMirrorsComplexesCastsHonestlyHopefullyBlack And WhiteDream WorldAmbivalent Author:Andre Dubus
“The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it's subject from it's deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream.” KnowsArtRealProblemDreamRealityForceFictionKnow HowSubjectsSweetReturnReaderHistoricalProfoundSurfaceContemporaryEncountersBrutalSpectatorsIdeologicalKitschContemporary ArtSweet Dreams Author:Slavoj Žižek
“...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.” ThinkingWorldWayWantFeelsWritingBelieveWellsKindStoriesDreamMightFictionFantasyAudienceReaderIntelligentScience FictionPrivilegeTalesHonourOpen MindedScience Fiction And Fantasy Author:Orson Scott Card
“"Unputdownable" is, I suppose, something we all dream of, maybe without knowing it. I realized, some time ago, that a novel can hold a lot, and it made sense that this one was not of the sleek and economical variety, but instead the "full" type. Novel as piñata. And the reader does the whacking. I had a central idea, which is to look at what happens to talent over time.” LooksDoeMadeIdeasDreamHappensNovelKnowingTalentTypeReaderI RealizedVariety Author:Meg Wolitzer
“The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.” EndsDreamLeftMemoriesReaderImpressionMelodyConcertsWaking Author:Dumitru Tepeneag
“I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom to impart or give, so I think my dream readers would be people who just use the book as an excuse to get into their own cycle of thoughts. The book is just like a map. It's just a jotting-down of things that you can interpret in your own ways.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantGivingBookUseDreamWould BeReaderExcuseMake SenseCyclesMapsImpart Author:Sarnath Banerjee