The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.