Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
Virginia WoolfMots clés empowerment gender women on-fiction fiction problems women-writers
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
Victor HugoMots clés history on-fiction fiction legends
It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.
Leland RykenMots clés books literature on-fiction fiction classics novels
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord ByronMots clés life truth on-fiction fiction strange lord-byron
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen LeacockMots clés writing on-fiction fiction non-fiction
Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.
Daniel KeyesMots clés on-fiction fiction
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Michael ScottMots clés on-fiction fiction fantasy-fiction virginia-dare
Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales." And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day "advancements" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question "Who designated myths and legends as unreality? " But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors "You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.
C. JoyBell C.Mots clés wisdom inspirational reality history belief inspirational-quotes courage bravery on-fiction fiction myth legend beliefs myths real inspiring folklore legends believing unreality wisdom-quotes unreal
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
Neil GaimanMots clés imagination reality writing inspiration on-fiction fiction state-of-mind
...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.
Rebecca MakkaiMots clés on-fiction fiction
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