On Fiction Quotes
To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.
The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!
I don't really read non-fiction, but I have grown up on a steady diet of Wodehouse and, of course, science fiction.
I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.