“There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that… — Edwin Fontanez Copy Share Image
“Charlie said your friend’s disappeared,” chirped Wendy. “No, he hasn’t.” Adam denied it. “He’s in the house. Now, look, what’s all this… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
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“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms… — Cristina Martin Copy Share Image
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“You look within and upon and around me, savoring every inch. You pull my ear for no reason, and I can tell… — Virginia Petrucci Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
“...one had to expect very little—almost nothing—from life, Aaron knew, one had to be grateful, not always trying to seize the days… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Good fiction doesn’t claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice—the… — P.S. Baber Copy Share Image
People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the… — Philip Roberts Copy Share Image
While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in… — Cynthia Breazeal Copy Share Image
“She’d always loved the mountains, but as she turned back to face the spectacular seascape in the distance, she nearly lost her… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“Snake Street is an area I should avoid. Yet that night I was drawn there as surely as if I had an… — K. Ritz Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
“A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
One day I decided to move towards documentaries or to move to more directing in documentaries at this point in my career.… — Dror Moreh Copy Share Image
This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message.… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“That was another thing about boys: No one assumed the blew a gasket for any reason other than they were just really… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact.… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
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![“Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we…” quote by Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/jean-baudrillard-1500_anticipate_fiction-is-not-imagination-it-is-what-an_612824.jpg)
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