Writing Quote by Ben Monopoli Download Open image ““Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.”” — Ben Monopoli ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“To me, fiction is a fast-track to the sort of truth with which facts interfere.” — Sarah Terez Rosenblum Copy Share Image
“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.” — Virginia Wolff Copy Share Image
“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.” — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.” — Nathaniel Robert Winters Copy Share Image
“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction—so we are told. Therefore” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Young people think they are invincible, that nothing bad will ever happen to them, and then something changes: they fall in love. And the… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing wife or whether commercials make… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“The place that haunts us and fuels us even as we wonder whether it truly exists.” — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“like a book with nothing on its pages but the promise of an amazing sequel.” — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“I knew from the first moment I saw him that I’d never turn down anything this guy asked of me.” — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“I was bi and my heart was off-limits to no one, at least not for any reason like what they had between their legs… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“The bathroom door opened and Griff emerged in a cloud of steam, the grand entrance of every B-movie alien I’d ever seen. Maybe this… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“I have learned, though, that memories aren’t things that have to pile up and overwhelm you. They’re just colors...that shade all the new things… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“And that’s the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights up the… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’ll take you to a lighthouse and kiss you like in that book about the cranberries everyone has to read in high school.” — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
