Collective Quote by Anthony Doerr Download Open image “That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.” — Anthony Doerr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Collective Fiction Make Power Take
I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal. — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well… — Ian Leslie Copy Share Image
If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency. — James Kelman Copy Share Image
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“he moved neither forward nor backward in time, but merely endured variations of the same day over and over. Maybe he was the one… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Open your eyes, the Frenchman on the radio used to say, and see what you can with them before they close forever.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Just when we think we have a system, ...the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“An hour passed and another and then, like a glass of water overfilled - the meniscus inverting, going convex, gravity pulling at the edges,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“For dinner, he orders wild boar cooked with fresh mushrooms. And a full bottle of Bordeaux. Especially during wartime, such things remain important. They… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Do you know what happens, Etienne,” says Madame Manec from the other side of the kitchen, “when you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water?” “You will tell us, I am sure.” “It jumps out. But do you know what happens when you put the frog in a pot of cool water and then slowly bring it to… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“You ever hope for something so much? So much you can't sleep, so much your skull hurts? But the thing is, you don't even… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Hope was a sunrise, a friend in the alley, a whisper in an empty corridor.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together,… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you're in their clutches or power. That must be the reason… — Bertie Carvel Copy Share Image
“...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which… — Michael Burawoy Copy Share Image
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
We need a system where all of our teams have the opportunity to compete and to make a few dollars. That's not a bad… — David Stern Copy Share Image
Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume… — Javier Solana Copy Share Image
