Lord Byron Quotes, Men Quotes, Fiction Quotes

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

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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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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Writing Quotes , Fiction Quotes

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

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Should Quotes

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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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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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Fiction Quotes , World Quotes

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

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Men Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Answers Quotes

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

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

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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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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Fiction Quotes

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.

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

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

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Science Quotes , Fiction Quotes

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

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Book 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.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Stories Quotes