We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions. — Emma Mackey Copy Share Image
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“We might not belong to anyone else in this whole world. But us Faulstiches,we belong to each other.” — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“What did the truth matter? All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream… — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
“-Those who never face oppositions always stop at propositions. -Those who never confront obstacles live with delays and postponements” — Ikechukwu Joseph Copy Share Image
“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain… — Gore Vidal 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
The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always… — Alfred Adler 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
I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“An author's ultimate reward is expanding mankind's understanding of our world.” — Richard Mathews Copy Share Image
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.” — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“people are so used to fictions that reality is difficult to react to” — Sissel Tolaas Copy Share Image
It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions. — Robert Rhodes James Copy Share Image
“Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.” — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.” — Erica Sehyun Song 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
“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
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
“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
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
“Then let’s treat all these holy texts as stories, fictions, and imperfections that could excite us to tears or erections.” — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity. — William J. Mann Copy Share Image
