Based Quote by Mark Kurlansky Download Open image “So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.” — Mark Kurlansky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Based Fiction I write Much True Writing
I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction. — Volker Bertelmann 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
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Why else do we read fiction, anyway? Not to be impressed by somebody's dazzling language - or at least I hope that's not our… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in.… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“Why else do we read anyway? I think most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“A 1670 revision of the criminal code found yet another use for salt in France. To enforce the law against suicide, it was ordered… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“The Romans, Jones pointed out, called a man in love salax, in a salted state, which is the origin of the word salacious.” — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“For a time, the Hanseatics were well appreciated as honorable merchants who ensured quality and fought against unscrupulous practices. They were known as Easterlings… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty good book… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The entire trendy foodie world - food writing, food television, celebrated restaurants - is all about food for the rich. But the most important… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn't end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of the same… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich. — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which… — Gil Gerard Copy Share Image
I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance… — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's… — Michael Ovitz Copy Share Image
Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Teach me about some taxes. Why didn't nobody teach me about taxes on TV? Why don't nobody teach us about none of that man?… — Brandon McCartney Copy Share Image
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
