Fiction Quote by Leila Slimani Download Open image “All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story!” — Leila Slimani ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Madame Bovary Story True True story Truth
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I don't listen to music. I know it's weird, and I have no explanation for that. But I never do. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
The only way you can know someone is through their actions - you can never know what's going on inside them. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Human darkness fascinates me; I find it intriguing. And there are few female characters who are explored in this light. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
I want to say that I can be Moroccan and speak about someone without speaking about his nationality. Because, you know, I have the… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
My two sisters and I had a very nice nanny at home in Morocco until I was 13. I remember my parents saying how… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
As a mother, you're only allowed to talk about the 'good' moments - not the ones when you've had enough and want to be… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Motherhood is not only something very pure and very full of love, it can be full of dark things, too. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
You have to fight against all the things that will keep you out of writing, because life doesn't go with writing. You will always… — Leila Slimani 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
