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We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.


Russell Hoban

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ORSON SCOTT CARD It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.
ANNALEE NEWITZ Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fear...
VARLEY O'CONNOR The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
WILLIAM GIBSON We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all th...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen.
JAVIER MARíAS 'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.
ELLEN STOFAN What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
PAUL THEROUX Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
PAUL THEROUX We want a little risk in our lives because it keeps things interesting. It wakes us up, it gives us ...
ROB BELL I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance t...
GILLIAN CROSS In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.
ALAN JOSHUA It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
MARK TWAIN We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.
DAVID SHIELDS [Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every mom...
CLIVE BARKER Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every momen...
CLIVE BARKER Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
SAUL STEINBERG If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we lo...
TIMOTHY DALTON A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEE A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEE A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEE Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other ey...
NEIL GAIMAN Humanity lives in its fiction.
BLAISE CENDRARS The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
TOM CLANCY Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a ma...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to u...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science...
PHILIP K. DICK Bill nodded, but he didn’t look hopeful. “The H-H-Himalayans had a rih-hi-hitual to g-get rih-ri...
STEPHEN KING Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for t...
BARRY UNSWORTH Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut...
MARK TWAIN When we go out knowing whose interests we are representing, people cannot oppose us because it is po...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of...
SIMONE WEIL Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe a...
HEATHER O'NEILL This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
DAVID GEMMELL Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
DAMON KNIGHT How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. adve...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about sci...
PHILIP K. DICK We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
LEO ROSTEN One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution tha...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS We thought it best to go with science fiction because you can tweak reality and the audience can sus...
CHRIS ROLAND Fiction may amuse us, but reality instills lessons to be imbibed through experience; to 'live' this ...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut...
MARK TWAIN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.
TERRY PRATCHETT If certain books are to be termed 'immigrant fiction,' what do we call the rest? Native fict...
JHUMPA LAHIRI A woman in a corset is a lie, a falsehood, a fiction, but for us, this fiction
is better than th...
EUGENE CHAPUS My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my dec...
EUDORA WELTY We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we...
MARCIA MULLER I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that...
ALAINA HUFFMAN There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully...
LANA WACHOWSKI When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry...
ORSON SCOTT CARD You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the...
NALO HOPKINSON Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behi...
STACIA KANE And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each o...
WALIDAH IMARISHA We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreat...
JERRY POURNELLE There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tel...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people ...
ISABEL ALLENDE Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
JOHN CHEEVER There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ...
CELESTINE L. GRAY It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
MARK TWAIN Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
MARK TWAIN Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.
DICK CHENEY If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off ...
COLUM MCCANN Failure comes into our lives not to fail us, but it comes to make us wiser and stronger through the ...
DEBASISH MRIDHA A decade or two ago we imagined a neural interface, but it was science fiction. But now these things...
HUGH HERR The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction.
RóBERT GáL People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and phil...
JOHN CHEEVER Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction
JAMES AGEE Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restor...
MIRIAM TOEWS With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it&#...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he...
LEE GUTKIND Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
HERMAN WOUK I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
KARL OVE KNAUSGARD I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what ...
NINA SANKOVITCH Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be...
DEAN KOONTZ There's a tendency to consider fiction marginal because it's not in the mainstream of conventional a...
BILL BUFORD Our thoughts, imaginations, and actions are what make us into who we are.
DEBASISH MRIDHA When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction
JOHN GAY At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs,...
MARK HADDON There may always be another reality to make fiction of the one we live in.
AARON FRANKS Reality is being reflected by fiction
ERIK VAN ZANEN Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not nee...
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BERTRAND RUSSELL There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing ev...
BERTRAND RUSSELL One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p...
BERTRAND RUSSELL When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
ROSALIND RUSSELL It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
BERTRAND RUSSELL All movements go too far, and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
BERTRAND RUSSELL What makes a belief true or false I call a fact. The particular fact that makes a given belief true ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc...
RUSSELL BAKER A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have...
BERTRAND RUSSELL My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur...
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