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fiction people science scientists tells time virtually visible
My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do. Gregory Benford
fictional remains
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective. Mark Billingham
fiction easy tales
How easy it is to tell tales! Denis Diderot
fiction hub
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. Elizabeth Bowen
fiction stories knows
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet. Elizabeth Bowen
fiction autobiography bounds
... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography. Elizabeth Bowen
fiction hard tendency weakness
I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time. Sarah Dessen
fiction humor low pitch relief short throws trying
Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it. Elizabeth McCracken
fiction fondness hard historical mind science wondrous
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves. Sue Monk Kidd
literature
Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature. Frank Darabont
literature language music-is
Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot
literature make-it-happen happens
You have to make it happen. Denis Diderot
literature midnight weak
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. Edgar Allan Poe
literature danger terror
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. Edgar Allan Poe
literature
The thing we fear we bring to pass. Elbert Hubbard
literature anticipation remember
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. Elbert Hubbard
literature shapes degrees
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. Elizabeth Bowen
literature outcomes language
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. Elizabeth Bowen
different happy-marriage good-marriage
A good marriage is different to a happy marriage. Debra Winger
different christianity garments
If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity? Dietrich Bonhoeffer
different folks
I love different folks. Eleanor Porter
different actors talent
When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected. Dirk Benedict
different reason
There are different reasons to make movies. Aaron Eckhart
different tables kind
The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table. Alexander Wang
different world agape-love
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. Aberjhani
different invisible
When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different. Charles de Lint
differentiation happens
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. Alan Watts