To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I had two competing ambitions when I was a child: I wanted to be a Scientist and Discover Great Things, but I… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
“(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.” — Charles McCarry Copy Share Image
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time. — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I love to read and teach experimental fiction but yes, neither this work nor my first novel is really that experimental. It… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“Chief Johnson has full faith on us. Which means if I can complete this task and hunt down the murderer, not only… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“The love that we feel for each other is not about the worldly things, those materialistic possessions, or great looks either. It’s… — Ankita Chadha Copy Share Image
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“He pries me from his chest and drops his hand from the back of my head, tracing my ear, along my jawline.… — Rebecca Berto Copy Share Image
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead.… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“There is no shame in losing to the sword of the Prince. There is only shame in choosing not to follow Him.” — Chuck Black Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“Then it doesn't matter which way you walk...-so long as I get somewhere.” — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Living in that castle was like being condemned to Hell before I’d even had the opportunity to sin.” — Kristen Reed Copy Share Image
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“She opened her eyes and looked into his rather intensely. "What?" Alex asked. "This cannot be." "What can't be?" Alex asked her,… — J.C. Henderson Copy Share Image
"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“A thin smile spreads, and the image morphs into that of Lucifer. “You will not succeed. Darkness always prevails.” — Tricia Copeland Copy Share Image
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