Boundaries Quote by Ken Follett

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

— Ken Follett

Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...

— Farley Mowat

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

— Tom Clancy

Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.

— Emile M. Cioran

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or…

— Dorothea Brande

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

— Colm Toibin

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

— Chad Harbach

Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and…

— Yann Martel

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where…

— David Foster Wallace

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life…

— Varley O'Connor