Fiction Quote by Arthur Phillips Download Open image “Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.” — Arthur Phillips ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Memoir
Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions... — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth. — Steve Bisley Copy Share Image
The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir. — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.” — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" wrote Marlowe, the man Shakespeare feared for many years was the better writer, the man… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“Offstage, she fixed him in place with compliments and ironic bossiness, and he tended not to look at her at all when they spoke.… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“All of this vain heartbreak that we cling to as important or tragic would one day be revealed - by TV scientists - for… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still. — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“How strangely distributed are our scruples. When they are evenly spread across our lives, we are judged good people. Mine, unfortunately, tend to bunch… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“He considered her ruthless, in his moments of pain, but also in moments of happiness, experienced mere feet from her but bound right wrist… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“She had burned through a fair sampling of manhood trying to find someone, not to make her "happy" - that wasn't the point -… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney 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 represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image