Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Dream Quotes, Fiction Quotes

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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

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

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

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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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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

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

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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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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

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

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

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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