
We make fiction because we are fiction … It lived us into being and it lives us still.
– Russell Hoban
Related Quotes:
- He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it. – Russell Hoban
- I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being. – Russell Hoban
- There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management. – Russell Hoban
- Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where you are going? – Russell Hoban
- The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips. – Russell Hoban
- O what we ben! And what we come to! – Russell Hoban
- The things that matter don’t necessarily make sense. – Russell Hoban
- Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation. – Russell Hoban
- 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
- It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn’t lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn’t lived yet. – Kasie West
- What a pity it is that we’ve lived the lives we’ve lived. – Katherine Ewell
- What a pity it is that we’ve lived the lives that we’ve lived. – Katherine Ewell
- We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really -˜lived’ a day in our lives. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell? – Red Auerbach
- Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives-”our lives and the lives of the people we touch. – Dave Anderson
- A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. – George RR Martin
- Whatever Jesus lays His hands upon, lives. If He lays is hands upon a marriage, it lives. If He is allowed to lay His hands on the family, it lives. – Howard W Hunter
- We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life – and even saves lives. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all? – Maya Angelou
- A writer creates many lives, changes lives, and with that lives forever. – Jen Golembiewski
- He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves. – Christopher Hopper
- Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. – Joyce Rachelle
- To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. – AE Samaan
- Fiction is only fiction because it is yet to be proven. – Robert M Roberts
- 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
- 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
- If contemporary literary fiction doesn’t read a bit like science fiction then it’s probably not all that contemporary, is it – Warren Ellis
- 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
