Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Unity Quotes, Fiction Quotes

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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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

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

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

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Debtors Quotes , Fiction 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

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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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Body Quotes

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Math 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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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Science Quotes , Fiction Quotes

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Literature Quotes

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

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Tags : Abraham Cowley Quotes , Lying Quotes , Fiction Quotes

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

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Book 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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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Writing 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

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

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Memorable 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

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

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Problem Quotes

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Writing Quotes , Fiction Quotes

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Roots Quotes , Fiction Quotes