Winston Churchill Quotes, War 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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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

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

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

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

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Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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

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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Purpose 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

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

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

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All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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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

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