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It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
-Guy Gavriel Kay
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Guy Gavriel Kay
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
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You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but god's - not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you - not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity - not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul - a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the saviour's book and the sinner's.
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Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. one starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. i read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy i used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.
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I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. for non-fiction, i write happily on a computer, but for fiction i write by hand, because i'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. i'm not reading what i write when i wrote. it's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.
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[it] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] the problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)
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The book on my nightstand right now isnt anything that inspired me, but it entertained me. i read a book on labor day, it was a holiday, and i have three daughters, and we all went to the shopping mall and i sat on the bench and read a book while they shopped, it was called the greatest golfer there ever was, it was a great book, easy to read and entertaining.
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All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. emotion is really what fiction is all about. that's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. but if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. you can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. but fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.
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