We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions. — Emma Mackey Copy Share Image
“Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can’t MANHANDLE THEM!” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next. — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
“I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“The last image I registered was Ethan and my hand – linked, bound and unbreakable.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the… — Henry Eliot Copy Share Image
And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“We share a bond. We do everything together. We have a piece of strong, invisible thread connecting us. It’s indestructible – it… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“She smiled sinisterly. Light mist started to slowly swirl around us. All I could see was her, the tall rocks and the… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Men may write fictions portraying lowly life as it is, or as it is not—may expatiate with owlish gravity upon the bliss… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths;… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“Fictions are useful so long as they are taken as fictions. They are then simply ways of "figuring" the world which we… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“I distracted Herbert by pretending to trip and break a bone. Ethan darted around to the red golf cart with a cocky… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“But that there is a simple relation between literary and other fictions seems, if one attends to it, more obvious than has… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“A long time ago, there was a little girl called Mary. Now Mary, she was warned several times not to go to… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
