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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… — Nicholas Delbanco
- I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in… — 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… — David Brin
- Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to… — Leonhard Euler
- Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we… — Gerhard Richter
- The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and… — 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… — Peter Greenaway
- Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is… — Paul Watzlawick
- What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis… — 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.… — Piers Anthony
- Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature… — Glenway Wescott