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As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non-fiction-histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts.
View quotes by Dan Brown
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
View quotes by J G Ballard
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
View quotes by Jim Rohn
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
View quotes by Tom Clancy
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
View quotes by Isaac Asimov
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.
View quotes by Ouida
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
View quotes by Oliver Cromwell
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
View quotes by Jean Baudrillard
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
View quotes by Franklin Pierce
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
View quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
View quotes by Bill Bryson
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
View quotes by Stephen King
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
View quotes by Lord Byron
I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction
View quotes by Ovid
75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.
View quotes by Glen Hoddle
You cannot be free if you are contained withing a fiction.
View quotes by Julian Beck
May I try some of your tasty beverage?(Pulp Fiction)
View quotes by Samuel L Jackson
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
View quotes by Ivana Trump
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures
View quotes by Jessamyn West