Factions Quote by Norman Mailer Download Open image “Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.” — Norman Mailer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Factions Facts Fiction Hybrid Novels Truth
“Faction” is a type of historical fiction that combines fact with fiction.” — Martin Herman Copy Share Image
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“subgenres are products of the writers’ urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic” — William Gibson Copy Share Image
In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“There is a continuity of all things that make classifications fictions. But all human knowledge depends upon arrangements. Then all books--scientific, theological, philosophical--are only… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction is a form of literature that lies halfway between fiction and fact.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I find it’s more fun to write about something that you don’t know completely and that you will discover on route. A dear friend… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I am like all other atheists only in that I do not believe there are any gods. Beyond that, I may differ dramatically in… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men When for so slight and frivolous a cause Such factious emulations shall arise!” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Women lead in ways different from men's. Men, I think, have been programmed to give orders. Women have been programmed to motivate people, to… — Muriel Fox Copy Share Image
Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
American Green Berets have been on the ground reaching out to some of the factions there. But don't confuse them with combat troops. So… — Tom Bowman Copy Share Image
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
