“I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.”

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English novelist 1957

James Berardinelli (1967) American film critic

Review http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=357 of Blade Runner (1982). <br class="br">Three-and-a-half star reviews

“There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

“One can't love humanity. One can only love people.”

Graham Greene book The Ministry of Fear

Source: The Ministry of Fear

“What I carry in my heart
Brings us so close or so far apart.
Only love can make love.”

Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian

That Voice Again
Song lyrics, So (1986)

“You can't think of the global and close your eyes to the details.”

Volodymyr Zelensky (1978) 6th President of Ukraine

Zelensky’s speech at the UN General Assembly https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vistup-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelenskogo-na-zagalnih-57477 (25 September 2019)

“Niven made a name for himself as a hard SF author, which is to say, someone whose SF provides enough technical detail that the reader can be certain that various mechanisms and events couldn't work the way the author has them working.”

James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer

review of All the Myriad Ways by Larry Niven http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/remember-when-niven-was-fun, 2015 <br class="br">2010s