Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.
Herman MelvilleTags: philosophy fiction historical
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless.
The tale is the map that is the territory.
You must remember this.
Tags: fiction mythology apocalyptic contemporary
The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.
Todd StrasserTags: reality on-fiction fiction nonfiction
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
Michael CrichtonTags: science fiction prejudice bigotry
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: talent art writing vocation on-fiction fiction value
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.
Bertrand RussellTags: knowledge reason belief burden-of-proof fiction satan superstition gods probability proof egyptian babylon christian-god hypothesis olympus rational santa
I came, I saw, I concurred...
Darren E. LawsTags: paraphrased fiction novels crime-fiction
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
Virginia WoolfTags: words reading books literature fiction
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.
Paulo CoelhoTags: inspirational fiction spirituality
A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
Phyllis A. WhitneyTags: writing on-writing on-fiction fiction
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