{"quotes":[{"text":"The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.","author":"Philip José Farmer","tags":["fairy-tale","genre","kurt-vonnegut","parable","ray-bradbury","science-fiction"],"id":816,"author_id":"Philip+Jos%C3%A9+Farmer"},{"text":"The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.","author":"John Oates","tags":["genre","been","field "],"id":9356,"author_id":"John+Oates"},{"text":"Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination, boldly and arbitrarily defying the laws of time, space and ordered causality, is closely connected with, and structured by, the categories of the subconscious, the inner impulses of man's nature. At first glance the scope of fantastic literature, free as it is from the restrictions of natural law, appears to be unlimited. A closer look, however, will show that a few dominant themes and motifs constantly recur: deals with the Devil; returns from the grave for revenge or atonement; invisible creatures; vampires; werewolves; golems; animated puppets or automatons; witchcraft and sorcery; human organs operating as separate entities, and so on. Fantastic literature is a kind of fiction that always leads us back to ourselves, however exotic the presentation; and the objects and events, however bizarre they seem, are simply externalizations of inner psychic states. This may often be mere mummery, but on occasion it seems to touch the heart in its inmost depths and become great literature.","author":"Franz Rottensteiner","tags":["devil","fantastic","fantastique","fantasy","genre","golem","horror","literature","sorcery","supernatural","vampire","werewolf","witchcraft"],"id":31661,"author_id":"Franz+Rottensteiner"},{"text":"Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!","author":"Lillian R. Melendez","tags":["auditory-viewpoint","book","dismantling-vindictiveness","genre","literature","mystery","novel","novelist","suspense","writing"],"id":40562,"author_id":"Lillian+R.+Melendez"},{"text":"This is the fiction that I’m referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quiltings of narrative.","author":"Hal Duncan","tags":["genre","rhapsody","science-fiction"],"id":47418,"author_id":"Hal+Duncan"},{"text":"Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["experience","fantasy","fiction","genre","historical","history","past","sci-fi","travel","writer","writing"],"id":49497,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony. ... A tale may not display a great deal of structural, psychological, or narrative sophistication, though it might possess all three, but it seldom takes its eye off its primary goal, the creation of a particular emotional state in its reader. Depending on the tale, that state could be wonder, amazement, shock, terror, anger, anxiety, melancholia, or the momentary frisson of horror.","author":"Peter Straub","tags":["fantastique","genre","horror","writing"],"id":54259,"author_id":"Peter+Straub"},{"text":"–It’s not Sci-Fi, we insist, It’s SF.Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.","author":"Hal Duncan","tags":["genre","science-fiction"],"id":66993,"author_id":"Hal+Duncan"},{"text":"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["genre","professional","publishing","understanding","writers","writing"],"id":69191,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.","author":"Christopher Rice","tags":["fiction","genre","horror","writers","writing"],"id":70061,"author_id":"Christopher+Rice"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":77,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}