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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. Jessamyn West

Imagination, Reality, Truths, Reveals

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Mark Twain

Truth, Truth Is, Wonder, Stranger, Sense

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams... Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writing session - even on a bad day, I know I'll find that again if I keep going. Trudi Canavan

Good, Dreams, Music, Keep Going, Day

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. Gao Xingjian

Life, Truth, You, True, Literature, Mask

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out. Stephen Hawking

Science, Time, Travel, Space, Thought

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. Marion Zimmer Bradley

Good, Science, Mind, Bad, Good And Bad

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. Stanley Kubrick

Music, Movies, Meaning, Feelings, Theme

Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position. Nancy Kress

Words, Building, Blossom, Right, Genes

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. Virginia Woolf

Life, Spider, Web, Four, Like, Attached

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf

Woman, Money, She, Own, Room, Her

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. Ray Bradbury

Change, Science, Art, Small, Writing

I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer. Mae Jemison

Science, Perspective, Society, Game

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction. Diana Gabaldon

Things, Most, Historical, Cultural

For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states. Lydia Millet

Time, Wolves, Government, American, Gray

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. Ursula K. Le Guin

Technology, Science, Science Fiction

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true. Steven Spielberg

Science, Think, Remember, True, Worth

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. - William Blake

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. William Blake

World, You, Will, Up, Made

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same. Steven Wright

Glasses, Bible, Reading, Two, Same, Pair

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. Kevin J. Anderson

Science, Together, Football, Wine, You

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. Jimi Hendrix

Science, Imagination, Rest, Key, Little

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen. Muhammad Yunus

Life, Mind, Society, Poverty, You, Free

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke. Nnedi Okorafor

World, Magic, Smoke, Place, Magical, See

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew. Jack Kerouac

Life, People, True, Symbolism, Tell

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness. John Updike

Value, Writing, Creative, Believe, Human

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it. Wesley Snipes

Science, Man, Black, Me, Universe, Why

I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people - a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated. Mark Kurlansky

Love, Romantic, People, Tough, World

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