Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Stories Quotes

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Writing Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Men Quotes , Fiction Quotes

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Book Quotes , Fiction Quotes

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Differences Quotes , Fiction Quotes

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Facts Quotes

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Conflict Quotes

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Deeds Quotes

When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Dream Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Burning Quotes

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Truth Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , History Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

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Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Past Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Writing Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Stranger Quotes

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Facts Quotes

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Should Quotes