Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable…

I think comedy tells a lot; you can tell what people think by what they laugh at.

— Riaad Moosa

Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these…

— Helen Fielding

“All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Children were allowed to go without chaperone…

— Eudora Welty

There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one…

— Erik Wemple

The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the…

— Will Oldham

A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every…

— Walter Isaacson

“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity…

— Christina Engela

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

— Carl Gustav Hempel

... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring,…

— Toni Cade Bambara

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species'…

— E. O. Wilson

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

— John Shelby Spong

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered…

— Terry Eagleton

For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain…

— Glenway Wescott