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fiction science-fiction conventions
China Mieville I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
fiction geek fantasy
China Mieville I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.
fiction fantasy weirdness
China Mieville One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.
fiction narrative moments
Edith Wharton Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.
fiction literature jazz
David Brin Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.
fiction science-fiction interest
Denis Leary Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.
fiction-stories world common
Kurt Vonnegut What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.
fiction literature truth-is
Charlotte Lennox Truth is not always injured by fiction.
literature civility
Charles Dickens The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
literature potatoes poultry
Charles Dickens Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
Charles Dickens I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
Charles Caleb Colton If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
literature prudence
Charles Caleb Colton There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Charles Caleb Colton Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
Charles Caleb Colton The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Charles Caleb Colton Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
literature
Charles Dickens We are so very 'umble.
truth-is sells
Daymond John Truth is the easiest thing to sell.
truth-is habit break
Denis Waitley The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.
truth-is weak
Bertolt Brecht You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
truth-is
Edward Snowden Truth is coming and it cannot be stopped.
truth-is interruptions regard
C. S. Lewis The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
truth-is heard
Baltasar Gracian The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.
truth-is good-things bad-things
Daniel Gilbert The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
truth-is wells sincerely
Clarice Lispector The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.
truth-is foe
Aristophanes The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.