Entertainment Quote by Joanna Scott Download Open image “As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.” — Joanna Scott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Entertainment Offer Reality Relief Stress
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Once in a while, when reality is too painful to bear, fiction can help us to restore the fragility of our human condition.” — Frances Stead Stellers Copy Share Image
I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“When fiction collides with reality, it's time to get fired up. There are great stories being generated out there by real events and people-plenty… — Gregory S. Lamb Copy Share Image
All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“The glory of fiction is in its falseness, but the impact of fiction is found in its painful reality.” — R.W.K. Clark Copy Share Image
“Real life is generally very haphazard in its plotting, and I think a lot of people lament that, and turn to fiction to briefly… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality,… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his essays and… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the Seven Gables' prove that reading can be an exciting subject in… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Some shows just go away - and that's fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on.… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
For me, there's cinema, which I love and would fight for, and then there's also entertainment, and I see them as very, very different.… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
My father's a taxi driver. Working in entertainment, is not a part of the culture. It's something you try to do before you become… — Naughty Boy Copy Share Image
If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
(in the film "That's Entertainment!" - 1974) Thank God for film, it can capture a moment and hold it there forever. If anyone ever… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like… — Tristan MacManus Copy Share Image
