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."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Thinking 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

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Truth 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

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Strong 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

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Burning 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

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Dream Quotes , Fiction Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Science 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

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Debtors 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 is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Fiction Quotes , World Quotes

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Answers Quotes

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Stories 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

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Conflict 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Facts Quotes