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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.
fiction autobiography bounds
... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
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
subjects
Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.
subjects
I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history. Bruno Tonioli
subjects picks ifs
Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer. Barry White
subjects known all-things
That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject. Arthur Schopenhauer
subjects throughout wellbeing
The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be. Saint Ignatius
subjects
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. Annie Dillard
subjects
You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you. J. R. Moehringer
subjects wild-creatures creatures
A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own Jay Griffiths
subjects our-thoughts
What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else! Hannah Arendt