Why are we so addicted to factual knowledge? Why are we so uncomfortable with the unknown? Is it something about the anxiety… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Either one is factually equal, and consequently morally equal as well; on the other hand, if one is morally equal, there is… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“After World War Two, the Australian army had been re-organised into its peace-time army status. The army was primarily three battalions which… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“For a lie to add piquancy to a story the story would be factual. Fantasy needs no lie to stimulate or excite.… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
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