'Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction.
It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.
It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.
I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars' fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it was part of my childhood.
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.
File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact...mmm I like!
Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from their perspective.
Reading non-fiction without writing notes is like chewing without swallowing. You will get the taste of it but digest nothing
We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.
Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!!
