Fictive Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.
— Jean Giono
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: