Fictive Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to… — Nicholas Delbanco
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are… — A. S. Byatt
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones. — David Brin
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it… — Leonhard Euler
Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. — Gerhard Richter
The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. — Siri Hustvedt
I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people. — Jean Giono
Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has far more exciting… — Peter Greenaway
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references… — Paul Watzlawick
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates… — Jean Baudrillard
Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have… — Piers Anthony
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not… — Glenway Wescott
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its… — Jacques Lacan
For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that… — Will Self
This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only… — Milan Kundera

Who Wrote These Fictive Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 15 Fictive Quotes as follows: