Real life doesn’t grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.
– Camilo Gomes Jr
Related Quotes:
- When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact. – Cormac McCarthy
- Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors–we hope–of your life come from reading fiction. – Orson Scott Card
- Don’t think about the possibilities of failing. Never forget to think about the possibilities of flying. – Debasish Mridha
- Countless possibilities exist in any situation. You must maintain a positive outlook to see the miraculous possibilities. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities. – Margaret J Wheatley
- I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. – Ayn Rand
- Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t. – Neil Gaiman
- …fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value. – GE Moore
- Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might. – Michael Grant
- The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless. – Michael Grant
- General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. – Marvin Minsky
- Some people come some people go..That’s the way it should be..Welcome people come, farewell people go..Because it’s a life. – Sally Chandra
- Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence. – Ayn Rand
- Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities. – Miriam Allen de Ford
- science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present. – Judith B Kerman
- Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing. – AD Posey
- But then had come the voice that said, Come on, you little freak, wherever the hell you are, whatever the hell you are, let’s get this done with. – Michael Grant
- Innovation gives life to imagination by providing that it is true, real, and useful. – Debasish Mridha
- People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn’t blame science. People should blame people. – Mira Grant
- Come out, come out, wherever you are… come out, come out, or you’ll end up in the tar… – Beatrice Rose Roberts
- From rocks come gold.From coal comes diamonds.From oysters come pearls.From caterpillars come ????erflies.From adversity come the great. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful than before. – Billy Graham
- A question that always haunts me. Why can’t people just be real? It’s easier being real than pretend being real. Give yourself a chance. – Manasa Rao
- Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. – Joyce Rachelle
- Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. – Justin Alcala
- Fiction described reality better than non-fiction. – Tommy Wallach
- I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. – EM Forster
- It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. – Mark Twain
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’s fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’ fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. – Richard Bunning
- We make fiction because we are fiction … It lived us into being and it lives us still. – Russell Hoban
- Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. – John Cheever
- I’d always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. – Robin McKinley
- Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird. – Erik Meyer
- To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. – Ursula K Le Guin
- I don’t want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges. – Brian A McBride
- I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. – Matthew S Williams
- Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. – Alan Moore