Virginia Woolf Quotes, Fiction Quotes

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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

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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

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Honest 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

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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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

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

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Strong 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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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

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

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

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

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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

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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