Fiction Quote by Jerry Pinto Download Open image “A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?” — Jerry Pinto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Heal Lying Wells
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing the world through their eyes.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Fight your genes.' The Big Hoom said to us once, to Susan and me. He did not explain. He did not know how to.… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
“I wanted to understand her predicament because I was her son and I loved her with a helpless corroded love.” — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
“Love is never enough. Madness is enough. It is complete, sufficient unto itself. You can only stand outside it as a woman might stand… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
“Took myself to Byculla. The area around the elephants is very soothing. I wish I were an elephant. I would be so composed.” — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
“In this city, every deserted street corner conceals a crowd. It appears in a minute when something disrupts the way in which the world… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
“That’s what comes of this celibacy business. We confess to men who’ve never had to worry about a family. Naturally, it’s a huge sin… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee. — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
“Marriage is all right. At least the person you’re having a go at is an adult. But motherhood… You’re given something totally dependent, totally… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
“I know I want to marry you. But I wish we were the first to ever get married. I cannot help feeling that the… — Jerry Pinto Copy Share Image
“Once I was told that living with me would mean being trapped and slowly asphyxiated.” — Jerry Pinto 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
