Certain Quote by Walter Lippmann

“You might think of the barrier between fiction and reality as being a bit like a blood-brain barrier, which allows only some kinds of…

— Greg Carlson

“...the casual fact, the creative imagination, the will to believe, and out of these three elements, a counterfeit of reality to which there was…

— Walter Lippmann

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

— Epictetus

With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable. It's not…

— Peter Heller

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

— Young-Ha Kim

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often…

— Michael Helm

“A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.”

— Jack Kerouac

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

— Bonnie Friedman

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and…

— Virginia Woolf

Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our…

— Eudora Welty

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

— Seneca the Younger