“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.” IfsWritingRealInterestingEmotionMoralRiskEmotionalTruth IsUniversalObligationRevolutionaryVulnerabilityTelling The TruthSubversiveMoral ObligationReal Emotion Author:Anne Lamott
“The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.” WritingReasonStoriesWould BePastTermFictionTruth IsScience FictionTalesFairyRaysFairy TaleParablesTroutGenericBradburyFiction Stories Author:Philip Jose Farmer