Embellishment Quote by Aljean Harmetz Download Open image ““Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”” — Aljean Harmetz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Embellishment Lies Lying Writers Writing
“Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“... but some say that reality is what happens inside a writer's head, and it is fiction which takes place outside it.” — Barry A. Whittingham Copy Share Image
“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic situations we… — Rene Folsom Copy Share Image
“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it” — Barry A. Whittingham Copy Share Image
“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.” — Tom Wiseman Copy Share Image
“Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented. Reality needs none of the above.” — Manoj Vaz Copy Share Image
“As a fiction writer I am not always sure where reality ends and non reality begins, when sane thoughts become less than sane, or… — Kathryn Mattingly Copy Share Image
“Sometimes lost in a book, you forget which is the real world and which is fiction.” — Gurnam Singh Sodhi Copy Share Image
“That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth. No matter… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she… — Sheldon Friedman Copy Share Image
“Ivy waved the wet handkerchief, as much as to say, words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
If you come up with the original idea on your laptop, anything else is an embellishment of that idea. It's nice to have the… — Hudson Mohawke Copy Share Image
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I’ve always been very detail orientated, but I have gone from embellishment to nudity - from designing for a woman that likes to be… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments. — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The inspiration starts with the armor my parents collected. The references are subtle, whether in the mix of textures (woven, quilted, pleated) or in… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
