Descendants Quote by Raymond Queneau

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual…

— Raymond Queneau

'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was…

— Karl Marlantes

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a…

— George Saintsbury

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

— Orson Scott Card

The basic story of "The Iliad" seems not even very servicable, for it has few parallels anywhere.

— Cedric H Whitman

It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.

— Chang-Rae Lee

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

— Kedar Joshi

As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non…

— Dan Brown

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

— Susan Sontag

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to…

— Andre Dubus

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

— Ben Rhodes

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

— Don DeLillo