Fiction Quote by Blaise Cendrars Download Open image “Humanity lives in its fiction.” — Blaise Cendrars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Humanity Nature of man
I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. Humanity itself seems to matter more to the novelist than what humanity thinks… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy. — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“and only much later, when Mascha wanted a child, did I realize that love is a deadly poison, a vice, a vice that one… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow.… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“Feelings flake off and fall in dust. The senses, vitrified, can no longer experience pleasure; they crack at the least provocation. Each of us,… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“Do not forget that when the heart petrifies there is no progress. All science must be like a fruit, so ordered that it may… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“Each of us attempted to stem & hold fast the unending flood of his thoughts which tended to trickle off into that inner void.… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery. — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“you make me laugh, with your metaphysical anguish, its just that you're scared silly, frightened of life, of men of action, of action itself,… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“Modern man has a need for simplification that tends to find its expression one way or another. And this artificial monotony which he takes… — Blaise Cendrars 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
