Alan Lightman Quotes, Roots 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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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

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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

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

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Facts 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

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

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

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

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Requirements 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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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Unity Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Fiction Quotes , World 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

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

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

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

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Should Quotes

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Fiction Quotes , World 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

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

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Men Quotes , Fiction Quotes