“Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.” IfsIdeasFictionPiecesSeaCompellingCavesSecluded Author:Ron Rash
“'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.” HumansMomentsAgeLyingFictionForeverWrittenSeaDividesTranquilityHuman HistoryBuzzArmstrongIntertwined Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility; but there is one high poetic fancy in the New Atlantis that stays in the mind after all its fancies and inventions have been forgotten. In the New Atlantis, an island kingdom lying in very distant seas, the only commodity of external trade is light: Bacon's own special light, the light of understanding.” MindHas BeensLightLyingUnderstandingFictionAirSeaSpecialTradeScience FictionForgottenInsightInventionKingdomsIslandsFancyPoeticCommodityAtlantisSociological Author:Peter Medawar
“I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.” LittlesSidesFictionCreativeSeaOceanIslandsNonfictionCaribbeanAtlantic Ocean Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.” WritingStoriesWomenFictionSeaAdventureHealthyBattleAnd LoveWineTalesSubjectiveScornCommonplaceManlyStoutYarn Book:Willa Cather Source: Willa Cather
“Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.” FirstsDoeIdeasLanguageFictionSeaLiftsFabricSailVacuumsCadenceFins Book:The Din in the Head Source: The Din in the Head
“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.” WritingFictionSeaCriticismCriticsShoreCensorshipHugSailingWriting Fiction Author:John Updike