Lord Byron Quotes, Men Quotes, Fiction 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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The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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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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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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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

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

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Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Deeds 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

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

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Problem 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

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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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Jay Gould Quotes

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

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Dream 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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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Writing Quotes , Fiction 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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I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Science Quotes , Fiction 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