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fables parables storyteller
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. Beeban Kidron
fables fiction allure
Fiction or fable allures to instruction. Benjamin Franklin
fables fields infinity
Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind Brandon Boyd
fables natural natural-history
Natural history is not about producing fables. David Attenborough
fables jupiter done
Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman. George Washington
fables literature ends
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels. Joseph Joubert
fables turns deserve
One good turn deserves another. Petronius
fables tortoises tire
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring. Northrop Frye
fables instruction severity
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it. Joseph Addison
fiction heard legal people seen
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology. Ruth Ozeki
fiction generally nonfiction spend time
Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. Peter Morgan
fiction lives nature quite since stuff wonder writers
I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up! Julia Glass
fictional finally fits history politics return totally
I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts. David Guterson
fiction fictional future science sure tools
When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions. Paolo Bacigalupi
fiction hard tendency weakness
I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time. Sarah Dessen
fiction overall
I think it has science-fiction elements, but I would say that overall it's a mystery. Shaun Cassidy
fiction type inferiors
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them. David Morrell
fiction plausible
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction David Mitchell
allure cures
I’m addicted to your allure and I’m fiending for a cure. Christina Aguilera
allure knows
We love we know not what, and therefore everything allures us. Thomas Traherne