Fictions Quotes

65 quotes by 61 authors

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart. — John Banville
Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical… — Lauren Slater
You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that… — Brad Warner
The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction… — Libba Bray
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here… — Twyla Tharp
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the… — Fernando Pessoa
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create… — Neil Gaiman
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source… — R. D. Laing
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to… — Joe Hill
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations. — David Levithan
Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance.… — Albert Pike
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not… — Lawrence Durrell
Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liabilityâ€¦ Itâ€™s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and I went to… — Stefan Molyneux
It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons,… — Orson Scott Card
And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid… — Colin Meloy
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would… — George Bernard Shaw
The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity. — William J. Mann
I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that… — Roxane Gay
God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. — Richard Flanagan

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