Absurdity Quote by Dave Eggers

I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere, but you're…

— Dave Eggers

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

— Vanessa Paradis

I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music…

— Brandi Carlile

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open…

— Lady Gaga

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather…

— Rachel Kushner

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

— Norman Mailer

I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form.…

— Stanley Kubrick

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and…

— Helen Fielding

I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too…

— Zooey Deschanel