Fiction Quote by Dean Cavanagh Download Open image ““The fictitious kleptomaniac's only crime was stealing imaginations”” — Dean Cavanagh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Kleptomaniacs
“just as when a youthful nobleman steals jewellery we call the act kleptomania, speak of it with a philosophical smile, and never think of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The Imagination of the Mind is the Treasury that although liable to theft, never ceases to grow.” — TheSleepingSorcerer Copy Share Image
“Our story is the only thing we have that is completely our own. A person who steals it and uses it to entertain is… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
We are all guilty of crime the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free. We can… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves. — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
“As he was about to press the button to shut the doors, a young woman stepped in. She had that sort of beauty that… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“Would a DNA test for love take a sample from the heart or the mind?” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“The Path Of Least Resistance Is Littered With The Corpses Of The Bored To Death” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“The ultimate goal of the political elite is to privatize the air. So as not to destroy their own edifice of democratic compassion they… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation.” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
