William Shakespeare Quotes, Memorable Quotes, Fiction Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Memorable 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Past Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Strong 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Unity Quotes , Fiction Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Should Quotes

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Fiction Quotes

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Purpose Quotes , Fiction Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

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."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Fiction Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ovid Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Facts Quotes

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Differences 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Real Quotes , Fiction Quotes

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fiction Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Requirements 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!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Men Quotes , Fiction Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Math Quotes , Fiction Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Deeds Quotes