"God gets the great stories. Novelists must make……" — Richard Flanagan

More Fictions Quotes

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• Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic… — Thomas Hood
• The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of… — Umberto Eco
• Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make… — Havelock Ellis
• There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long… — Albert Einstein
• All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth… — Jeremy Northam
• It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. — Frank Kermode
• No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or… — Wallace Stegner
• The future is just your hope, expectation. And when this life is not fulfilling you start looking further, beyond death.… — Rajneesh
• Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about… — Paul Auster
• Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child.… — Sally Mann
• We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in… — Plato
• Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He,… — Manuel Puig

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