Carl Sagan Quotes, Science Quotes, Fiction Quotes

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Jay Gould Quotes

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Doubt Quotes , Fiction 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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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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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

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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

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

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This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

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Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

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

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Writing Quotes , Fiction Quotes

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

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Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Answers Quotes

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

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The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Unity Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Truth Quotes , Fiction Quotes

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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