Answer Quote by Elif Batuman Download Open image “A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.” — Elif Batuman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Answer Person Question Reasonable Truth Seeking
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“The best fiction rarely provides answers; but it does formulate the questions exceptionally well.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
In my opinion there are two basic questions that any writer tries to answer. "What is?" is the question non-fiction asks. "What if?" is… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction. — Saul Steinberg Copy Share Image
To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
fiction is founded on truth…unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I leafed through the phrase book. If a Martian read it, the Martian would probably decide to avoid Hungary.” — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Svetlana said that she identified with that Madonna more than with any other woman in any other painting. She kept asking me what painting I identified with. I didn't identify with anyone in any paintings. I finally identified with a painting in the Picasso Museum. Titled Le Buffet de Vauvenargues, it showed a gigantic black sideboard [...] Svetlana said I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share
One of the most painful parts of a breakup is having the feeling that your life is a story, and then the other person… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Dracula visited the Wolf Department at the Zoological Gardens. "These wolves seem upset at something," he observed. The next morning the cage was all… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I ended up siding with the academics just because I happened to end up in graduate school, or if I ended up in graduate school because I already secretly sided with the academics. In any case, I stopped believing that "theory" had the power to ruin literature for anyone, or that it was possible to compromise… — Elif Batuman Copy Share
People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked about Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, I always answer: 'Neymar is the best,' not just because of his goals but because… — Roberto Carlos Copy Share Image
I'll answer anything... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble. — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I play along myself, even though I can't help the player. So I can't say what I think the answer might be. But I'll… — Paddy McGuinness Copy Share Image
Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari Copy Share Image
I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.' — Sylvia Robinson Copy Share Image
Fans are always asking me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I'm very curious, and I get inspiration from everywhere.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly 'what's wrong' with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don't identify the name… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.' — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those… — John Anderson Copy Share Image
There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber. — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
The border is varied depending on the geography, depending on the specific venue, and depending on the conduct of individuals around it. We don't… — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
