"Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to…" — Leo Rosten
"Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense."
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51 Quotes by Leo Rosten
Leo Rosten has 51 quotes on this site.
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We see things as we are, not as they are.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter..
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly…
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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness,…
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You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if…
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Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from…
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Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty,…
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Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
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The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a…
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Satire is focused bitterness.
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You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at…
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
— Isaac Asimov
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
— Margaret Atwood
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
— Margaret Atwood
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
— Margaret Atwood
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and…
— Margaret Atwood
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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter…
— Margaret Atwood
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