Fictional Quote by Howard Jacobson Download Open image “There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.” — Howard Jacobson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fictional Mind Most Problem Psychology Spring Storytelling
The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough. — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
When viewers watch shows, they should relate to the story. There has to be a blend between reality and fiction. — Vatsal Sheth Copy Share Image
I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding. — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction. — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The novel is a thing of irony and ambiguity. That's at the heart of 'J', a world that has stopped arguing with itself. We… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“She smiled sinisterly. Light mist started to slowly swirl around us. All I could see was her, the tall rocks and the white wall.… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a… — Hannah Murray Copy Share Image
“I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she is clueless… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read has a… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
“She was so plain. Would it kill you to wear skirts more, he had said to her. Would it really hurt you? He was… — Meg Sefton Copy Share Image
I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one” — John Green Copy Share Image
“The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance , while a story must have meaning . The former is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants… — adam johnson Copy Share Image
