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

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

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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

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

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Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

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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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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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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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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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

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

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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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