“Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.” ThinkingPersonsCharacterStoriesRunningThirdsStructureComplexesVariousDeeperExplorationThreadMisunderstandingParallelsThird Person Author:Juliet Marillier
“Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.” LongHas BeensStoriesSocialIssuesLong TimeDestructionPainterNovelistsFilmmakerExplorationPlaywrightExamining Author:J. J. Abrams
“The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.” IfsRealStoriesWould BeFictionNovelLandCenturyMoonBandScience FictionLaysExplorationFabulousRocketsRubberRubber Bands Author:Philip K. Dick
“Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.” HumansStoriesWrittenRelationParadiseCollectionsExplorationHuman RelationsPoignantDebutSensuousTransience Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.” FirstsBookStoriesDoubtAdventureRiversExtraordinaryTalesExplorationAmazonDescentRainforestTheodoreAmazon Rainforest Author:Candice Millard