Alan Lightman Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Jay Gould Quotes

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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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

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf 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

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

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

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Problem Quotes

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Strong 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

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

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Writing 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

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

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

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

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

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Truth 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

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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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Stories 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

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