Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That’s what fiction is: a game of pretend.
– Marty Rubin
Related Quotes:
- Fiction: a game of pretend. – Marty Rubin
- Business is like a game and you play the game only in two ways. Either you play to Win or Play not to Lose – Qasid Parkar
- Life is a game. We must keep playing the game. The more we play, the more we will understand the game of life. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Every game has rules. Obey the rules, win the game; disobey the rule, lose it! The game of life has loser and winners. Play fairly and win! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Every game has rules. Life’s a game that has its respective rules; obey the rules, win the game! – Israelmore Ayivor
- The future toyed with us, it was up to us to try to enjoy the game. But not everyone liked the game or they weren’t given the tools to play. – Carrie Adams
- -‹Dharma or Ethics and Morals are the Fundamental Set of Rules created for those who want to Play the Game, by those who are Inside the Game. – Vineet Raj Kapoor
- Life is game. Never fear to play the game. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- The biggest game you will ever play is the game in your mind. Master your mind, master your world. – Kevin Abdulrahman
- Life is a game of chance. You ought to play the game. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Millionaires don’t play the blame game but the gain game. – Dee Dee Artner
- The blame game is already a lost game, so don’t attempt dressing up to play it! Blames create no change; winners don’t apportion blames! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Don’t hate the game, hate the player… the player should have known better than to play the game in the first place. – Nyki Mack
- It’s important for someone who could play the game – and win – to say: ‘the game isn’t worth shit. – Gloria Steinem
- The point isn’t to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased) – Patrick Rothfuss
- The blame game is already a lost game, so don’t attempt dressing up to play it! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – Harry Truman
- My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers. – Soraya Diase Coffelt
- The whole world’s writing novels, but nobody’s reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers. – Robert Galbraith
- All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. – Thomas Swick
- I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me. – Coco J Ginger
- Play the game of peace, not the war.Play, not with gun, but with laughter. – Debasish Mridha
- You ever play that game seven minutes in heaven, baby? Because we’re about to play it. – Kathey Gray
- While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality. – MT Bass
- But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it. – Susanna Clarke
- You sound so miserable.--œAll novelists are. – Changdictator
- When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all. – Theodore Roosevelt
- who ever play with play will cry with play – Bello Salihu
- You play with ice – you get cold.You play with fire – you get burnt.you play with me – you get lucky. – Anthony T Hincks
- …they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us. – Ayn Rand
- Don’t worry about whether you can do it, Bailey Bean. Just pretend you can. Pretend enough and it becomes real. – Jill Shalvis
- To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. – Jacques Derrida
- Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Its hard to pretend to love someone when you don’t but its harder to pretend that you don’t love someone when you really do.. – Anonymous
- There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself. – Marty Rubin
- All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works. – Marty Rubin
- Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don’t need to be afraid. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
- Politics nowadays is a game unlike every other game, only for the willing hearts and strong minds – ETC Wanyanwu
- Didn’t you read the invitation? There’s going to be a game in a little while–the big Twister game in an hour. Make sure you eat plenty of bread. – Elle Lothlorien
- Life is a game and you are the player. As you master the game, so you also create it. – Jay Woodman