Fictions Quotes
65 Fictions quotes by 61 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.
— Haruki Murakami
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Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
— Libba Bray
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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
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All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
— Orson Scott Card
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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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Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.
— John Banville
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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