Top 1200 Non-Fiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 20, 2024.
With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.
Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.
I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.
I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.
Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.
Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.
I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.
When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.
Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.
In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.
It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.
The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.
Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.
Real life is far more complicated than fiction.
I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.
That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.
Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.
When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.
If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.
In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .
Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching.
I've only read fiction, so I don't know anything actual
'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.
People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
