“Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about ...” — Paul Park Quote

“Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.”

“I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at meta-fiction. Think of all the best Phillip K. Dick stories, where you experience a sort of dislocation, and suddenly what you think you've been reading is, in fact, something else entirely.”

“Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.”

“Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.”

“Lives literally depend on what we do.”

“My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.”