“If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.” IfsFeelsWritingMindLongDifferentPlayFictionStupidSweetResearchMealsNarration Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge
“For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly you're the guy who's asking your daughter, "When I go on Facebook, can it see me?"” UseJobsGuyProcessFictionStupidGoes OnDaughterAskingIphoneFiction WritersOur DaughterYour Daughter Author:George Saunders
“...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.” MeanI CanLiteratureFictionStupidFoolLet MeWriting FictionReading Fiction Author:John Waters
“It's just science fiction so it's allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It's just science fiction, so it doesn't have to make sense. It's just science fiction, so you must ask nothing more of it than loud noises and flashing lights.” LightAsksFictionStupidScience FictionSillyNoiseMake SenseLoudBeing SillyLoud NoisesFlashing Lights Author:Isaac Asimov
“The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.” WritingSaidBookSeemsMovingLyingFictionWorstAdviceStupidMoving ForwardRetreatKeep MovingKeep Moving ForwardWriting AdviceWriting FictionTelling Lies Author:David B. Coe
“The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.” TwoLiteratureFictionStupidGenreStreamsDistinctionSplitsPerniciousDichotomyFeuds Author:George R. R. Martin
“Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great hypnotic blah, blah." You can sit around and have these pity parties for yourself. Of course this is bullshit. If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. One possible reason is that the people it's speaking to have become too stupid to appreciate it. That seems a little easy to me.” PeopleIfsWantWritingLittlesArtRealSometimesReasonSeemsFormFallCoursesEasyPoorPartyFictionAudienceStupidTvsRight NowMy FriendsAppreciatePityBullshitFallacyMarginalizedBlahHypnoticPity Party Author:David Foster Wallace