Accepting Quote by Brad Warner

Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.

— E. Nesbit

It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life,…

— Leland Ryken

What is life but playing with time?

— Keith Richards

“Fictions are useful so long as they are taken as fictions. They are then simply ways of "figuring" the world which we agree to…

— Alan Wilson Watts

If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.

— Ryan Gosling

I don't have too much time for fiction.

— Ronald Reagan

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain…

— Glenway Wescott

As the world grapples with more efficient ways of managing time, it lures us into more and more earthly pursuits. But life is not…

— Keith B. McMullin

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of…

— Lawrence Lessig

“Time is a sphere made up of language, colours, smells, senses and sounds, a sphere in which you and the world coexist, an instrument…

— Peter Høeg

I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you should push…

— Anthony Doerr

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero