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Fictions Quotes
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the what happens, but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me. - Alice Munro Quotes
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. - Allen Tate Quotes
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. - Lawrence Durrell Quotes
It is the creator of fictions point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
Fictions about what it is to be a human being. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. - Jeremy Northam Quotes
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. Its fictions business to ask them. - Richard Hughes Quotes
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. - Manuel Puig Quotes
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me. - Karl Jaspers Quotes
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. - Richard Schickel Quotes
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