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Fiction Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe…
- If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
- To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
- Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
- I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than…
- There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of…
- [Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
- I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in…
- Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the…
- I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture…
More Fiction Quotes
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov
- Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
- Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. — Margaret Atwood
- Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. — Margaret Atwood
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other… — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood