Fiction Quote by R.W.K. Clark

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

— Donna Leon

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

— Oscar Wilde

“Being close but feeling far, talking but not being heard, loving but not being loved, that is the painful reality of a dying relationship.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Blissful unconsciousness became foggy awareness which transitioned into painful reality.”

— Andy Weir

“As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.”

— Ernest Cline

“smile. “It’s growing old that’s painful. That’s when reality hits. You find yourself with special memories that have nowhere to go and dreams that…

— Barbara Delinsky

“I realized, as painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.”

— Ernest Cline

“We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia”

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light…

— Petrarch

In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes. I think…

— Kyle Hill

I'm not saying 'The Godfather' trilogy was bad - because it was brilliant - but that was fiction. It was based on reality.

— Frank Vincent

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

“The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction!”

— Eli Of Kittim

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

— Nadine Gordimer