Break Quote by Ben Marcus Download Open image “Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.” — Ben Marcus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Break Breaking down Complicated Elusive Fiction Tricks
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't. — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them. — Lisa Joy 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
Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“..., and he told a story once after intercourse, to the person who had just politely hoisted him while he hyperventilated in their space… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Terms BEN MARCUS, THE 1. False map, scroll, caul, or parchment. It is comprised of the first skin. In ancient times, it hung from… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Loud people have thin, hollow bones. They can be broken in half and discarded into a pit. They snap as easily as children do,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“This first. To understand this. Then maybe." Julian was impressed. The doctor had devised a pretty good tombstone. This first. To understand this. Then… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Who is setting the bar for what you call accessibility? The definition of “accessible” is “easy to understand,” and so much of the fiction… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots.” — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have converted the… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.” — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Things are going well in Germany because the economy is booming and as an export-driven nation, we are profiting from the fact that we… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
There were songs that we cut out after we chose the name, because 'Praise Break' turned out to be an underlying concept that I… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. — Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
