Fiction Quote by Herman Wouk Download Open image “The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.” — Herman Wouk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Income tax Writing
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative...A… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Scholars call it [the Torah] the Masoretic text. The Masoretes were Hebrew scribes of the first centuries of the present era. They fixed the… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“The UN is all screams and twitters, like a ladies’ room when a guy barges in. A” — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This comes from a piece… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Al nations celebrate the day of their coming into being with a work stoppage and ceremonies. The Jews, who believe that God created the… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy,… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and God. Philosophers… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Sir, my inferior understanding prevents my grasping the unquestionable soundness of the mission.” — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“The clear intent of our law is to enable a man to live in the world and yet hold his faith close to his… — Herman Wouk 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
