I happen to believe that the deepest value of fiction is that, in its very fictiveness, it is the one arena where we can, at least temporarily, take apart and refuse to compete within the terms that the rest of existence insists on. Market value may come to drive out all other human values, except, perhaps, in the country of invented currency, the completely barter-driven economy of the imagination. Fiction, when it remembers its innate priority over other human transactions, can deal not in price but in worth. And that seems to me an act filled with political potential, as well as with pleasure.
Richard PowersStichwörter: interview
If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope.
Markus ZusakStichwörter: motivational writing interview writing-advice rule idea the-guardian
I find it’s more fun to write about something that you don’t know completely and that you will discover on route. A dear friend of mine...once said: 'The only time I know anything is when it comes to me at the point of my pen.' So I think that if you start to write about things that you know half well, that you’re fascinated by, that you sense you have an appreciation of that others might not have, but you do have to acquire the knowledge as you go, you discover a great many things at the point of a pen. And it keeps the writing alive in itself in a way.
(in an interview with Martin Amis, 1991, see YouTube)
Stichwörter: interview 1991 martin-amis
It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?
George R.R. MartinStichwörter: interview song-of-ice-and-fire george-r-r-martin the-red-wedding
It doesn't matter what you read. What matters is you read. Whether it’s Tolstoy or Twilight, Kierkegaard or Betty and Veronica, keep reading, and don’t ever let somebody else—anybody—have a say about, or try to control, what you choose to learn from and/or escape into.
Trent ZelaznyStichwörter: reading interview
Deep emotion in this age is a radical act.
Masha TupitsynStichwörter: interview
What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it’s too late?
Elizabeth GilbertStichwörter: interview travel selfishness
I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant and got me through, as an adult those became my defects of character. Those became my shortcomings, control and all that kind of stuff... and that's my responsibility.
I was a blameless child in what happened in the home; I take responsibility for my behaviors as an adult.
Stichwörter: interview thehour
If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaStichwörter: humor religion interview heaven humour hell employment heaven-and-hell unemployment job the-purpose-of-life
Give your typical employee a profitable corporation, and, he is mostly likely to sell it to buy a fancier suit for his next job interview.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaStichwörter: interview indoctrination herd-mentality corporation employee
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