"Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is…" — Frederic Raphael
"Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer."
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Frederic Raphael
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14 Quotes by Frederic Raphael
Frederic Raphael has 14 quotes on this site.
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Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.
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Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to…
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are…
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Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't…
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The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may…
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Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.
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Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior…
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One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely…
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Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are…
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People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
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The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting…
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As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become…
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More Fiction Quotes
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one of 2,465 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or…
— J. J. Abrams
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
— Paul Auster
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
— Isaac Asimov
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
— Margaret Atwood
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
— Margaret Atwood
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and…
— Margaret Atwood
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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter…
— Margaret Atwood
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