Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Math Quotes, Fiction Quotes

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

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I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

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

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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

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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.

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Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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

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

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

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Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

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

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

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

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I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

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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."

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Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

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

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I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

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