Abraham Cowley Quotes, Lying Quotes, Fiction Quotes

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Cowley Quotes , Lying Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Fiction Quotes , World Quotes

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Memorable Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Truth Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Doubt Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Dream Quotes , Fiction Quotes

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Body Quotes

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Literature Quotes

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Writing Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Stories Quotes

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Jay Gould Quotes

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Problem Quotes

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Should Quotes

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Fiction Quotes

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Purpose Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Strong Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , History Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Debtors Quotes , Fiction Quotes

When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Fiction Quotes

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Roots Quotes , Fiction Quotes