Differences Quote by Douglas Adams

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations…

— Douglas Adams

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

— Jonah Lehrer

If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your…

— Ryohgo Narita

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being…

— Dani Shapiro

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

— Don DeLillo

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

— Jeanette Winterson

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a…

— Don DeLillo

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post…

— Paul Fussell

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of…

— Penelope Lively