William Blake Quotes, History Quotes, Fiction Quotes

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

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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

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

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

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

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Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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

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

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Problem 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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 aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Honest Quotes