Quotes About Author

understand how, in the excitement produced in that border-warfare

It is not clear when cats became a 'thing' in science fiction but Heinlein made a significant contribution to their presence and to the construction of that presence.

The intrusion fantasy uses the form of the club story - the unquestioned tale - to construct reality, then renders the walls of the world-story translucent.

In many of the novels I have discussed in this chapter, the position of the reader vis-a-vis the protagonist is central to the construction of liminality.

The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

Truth is never timeless and absolute, therefore, but continuously revealed to those who partake in critical reflection based on struggle.

up the hem of her silk shell and scooped his

I do use husbands a bit (in books). It's what writers of this kind do, actually. I am quite careful to try to keep the family out of my writing. You find, on the whole, that men will forgive you everything if you say they are good in bed and the women if you say they are beautiful. It's the way to turn away wrath.

Idle, profligate, ingrate. No one decent could ever want him.

He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

The paramedics told me the story." He checked the clock, then signed a clipboard attached

Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we're faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

In Spain, the dead are move alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.

In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.

Tanto la «intención» del autor como la impresión que el lector recibe son ambas igualmente «subjetivas» en el sentido de que no son vinculantes; más allá de ambas está lo que en la propia secuencia argumentativa del texto hay de vinculante.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Only the early Fitzgerald was great. Then came an orgy of brutal realism

She stared at the castle. She had actually been summoned to a castle. A week before Christmas.

nonchalantly, against her damp brow.

I´m a Marxist, all right, Groucho tendency, and a Leninist, Lennon tendency

The idea that we invent reality together in the commitments we make to each other when we speak