Filters Quote by Hisham Matar Download Open image “Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.” — Hisham Matar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Filters Imagination Like Reality
...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic situations we… — Rene Folsom Copy Share Image
The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,… — A.K. Wallace Copy Share Image
There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second World War,… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
My parents were fairly laid-back, but there were certain things about which they were very strict. My brother and I were told never to… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Libyans are deeply unsettled by Gaddafi and his regime's careless contempt for human life. The dictatorship is willing to employ any methods necessary to… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
My best hope is that Libya turns into a peaceful, sensible country that has all the things my father and lots of others have… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Between Twitter and Facebook I have nearly 70,000 followers, so my colleagues receive the responses. They show some of them to me, and I… — Helen Zille Copy Share Image
Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It is impossible to estimate full influence of the reading of the Word in a home day after day and year after year. It… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
![“But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's multiple reaffirmations of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical on the morally appropriate means of family planning - gets airbrushed out of the picture.” quote by George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b1d/george-weigel-9372_appropriate_but-ripped-out-of-context-who-am-i-to-ju_146817.jpg)