“I’m going to make an incredibly broad generalization here, but I think there are basically two kinds of fiction writers: there are writers who want to stuff as much of the observed world into their books as they can, trying to represent life as we know it, to write books about the “way we live now”—and then there are writers who want to create worlds, to instead create new life and new possibility, to use that newness to push back against the received world around us. This is, as I understand it, the basic divide between realist and non-realist writing: for me, it’s less about levels of representation or fabulism and more about capturing versus creating.” (via Conversation: “Cataclysm Baby” Author Matt Bell On Apocalypses, Fairy Tales, And Much More | Vol. 1 Brooklyn)