Advantage Quote by Julian Barnes Download Open image “But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.” — Julian Barnes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advantage Fiction Inspirational Speed Time
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time. — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better. — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life,… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe. — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Fictions are useful so long as they are taken as fictions. They are then simply ways of "figuring" the world which we agree to follow so that we can act in cooperation, as we agree about inches and hours, numbers and words, mathematical systems and languages. If we have no agreement about measures of time and space, I would have… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction. — Marcy Dermansky Copy Share Image
“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in… — Kelly Blatz Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
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