Answer Quote by Richard Hughes Download Open image “All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.” — Richard Hughes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Answer Ask Business Fiction Non fiction Questions Them
Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction. — Saul Steinberg Copy Share Image
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To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions... — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
I only like non-fiction. After 30 pages of fiction, I think: what nonsense are they trying to write. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
If you wanna write non-fiction you have to be interested in the world. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
“You can invent any fiction and call it a life." "Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You can never count on them. They say what they think you want them to say, and then they say what the opposing council… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide sense): but… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Life seemed suddenly a little empty, for never again could there happen to her something so dangerous, so sublime.” — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“The punctilious magistrate, presiding in his bivouac of matting, vanished without punctilio.” — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Laura lay on her back in the faint light of the open hatch. She had discarded her blanket; and the vest which did duty… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Since landscape changes like this from country to country it must owe very little to Nature: Nature is no more than the canvas, and… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do. — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“It would have surprised Mrs. Thornton very much to have been told that hitherto she had meant practically nothing to her children. She took… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“Emily and Rachel had their hair cut short, and were allowed to do everything the boys did - to climb trees, swim, and trap… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“It is a fact that it takes experience before one can realize what is a catastrophe and what is not. Children have little faculty… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
“A method involving apparent obscurity is surely justified when it is the clearest, the simplest, the only method possible of saying in full what… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
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I'll answer anything... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble. — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I play along myself, even though I can't help the player. So I can't say what I think the answer might be. But I'll… — Paddy McGuinness Copy Share Image
Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari Copy Share Image
I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.' — Sylvia Robinson Copy Share Image
Fans are always asking me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I'm very curious, and I get inspiration from everywhere.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly 'what's wrong' with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don't identify the name… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.' — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those… — John Anderson Copy Share Image
There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber. — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
The border is varied depending on the geography, depending on the specific venue, and depending on the conduct of individuals around it. We don't… — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
