Biographies Quote by Norman Spinrad Download Open image “All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.” — Norman Spinrad ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographies Fiction History Ifs Lying Would be Writing
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
“Stay a dreamer, and you'll never have your dream; get down in the nitty-gritty, and when you get your dream you see what horseshit… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
“Cat Rambo: Where do you think the perennial debate between what is literary fiction and what is genre is sited? Norman Spinrad: I think… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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