Fictions Quotes

65 quotes by 61 authors

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything… — Allen Tate
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left… — Gerry Spence
Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but… — Gore Vidal
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that… — Dan Chaon
Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper;… — Thomas Berry
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them.… — Richard Schickel
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life… — Charles de Lint
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the… — Madame de Stael
In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin… — Sylvia Brownrigg
Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is… — Ted Dekker
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do… — Junot Diaz
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of… — Lawrence Durrell
I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way… — Charlie Kaufman
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that… — Alice Munro
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. — Haruki Murakami
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. — Robert Anton Wilson
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept. — Libba Bray
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but… — Alan Moore
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. — Orson Scott Card
They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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