Assume Quote by Celeste Ng Download Open image “When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.” — Celeste Ng ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assume Cannot Fiction Read Reading Reading fiction
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible. — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“All up and down the street the houses looked like any others—but inside them were people who might be happy, or taking refuge, or… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Debut novels are difficult because nobody knows you... they just don't find a huge audience, because that's how the market works. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
We have to figure out why we see the world in different ways and then how are we going to adjust so that we… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“I have measured my life with coffee spoons and do I dare to eat a peach?' 'DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?” — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“No one, she had learned from experience, could stand such silence for long. If you waited long enough, someone would start talking, and more… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Though she would never quite articulate it this way, resentment began to sheathe concern. ANGER IS FEAR'S BODYGUARD, a poster in the hospital hard… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Everyone sees race, Lex," said Moody. "The only difference is who pretends not to.” — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
We only call at ducks when their rear ends are towards us. If I'm looking at you and you call my name, then I… — Jase Robertson Copy Share Image
I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Although we often assume that feelings inspire actions, in fact, actions also inspire feelings. By pushing myself to act happier, I make myself feel… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but… — Jack Kilby Copy Share Image
