Certainty Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . .…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“All certainty that comes after the 'original sin' of dismantling the matter-of-fact world full of routine and short of reflection must be a manufactured…

— Zygmunt Bauman

“I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also that by…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Sometimes the less we know about what will happen in a work of fiction, the better off we are. Because the more we know…

— Dermot Bolger

Possibility is strength of our imagination and character.

— Tasneem Hameed

“Our imagination goes ahead of us, bringing our yesterday's imagings into present realities.”

— Ogwo David Emenike

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“At the heart of the novelist's craft lies an optimism which thinks that the knowledge we gather from our everyday experience, if given proper…

— Orhan Pamuk

“I said earlier that we are all poets, though not many of us write poetry; and so are we all novelists, that is, we…

— John Fowles

Science, innovations and other means in which we desperately attempt to predict and control our existence are merely illusions to conceal our utter powerlessness…

— Tia Nnebo

“Our existence may not be an intelligible justice, or even a recognizable wrong. But our existence is still a story. In the fiery alphabet…

— G.K. Chesterton

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

— Mary Kay Andrews