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fiction remember stranger
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Arthur C. Clarke
fiction honest aim
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction life love whether
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life. Abraham Verghese
fiction realizing social
What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. Doris Lessing
fiction ground los reality
What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles. Michael Connelly
fiction documentaries directors
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life. Alfred Hitchcock
fiction movement crafts
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. Raymond Carver
fiction kind film
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films. Ray Bradbury
fiction imagine terrible
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions. Siri Hustvedt
science mathematical-logic ideas
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. Bertrand Russell
science supposing-that forever
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new. Calvin Coolidge
science would-be mould
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty. Charles Darwin
science son progress
But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress. Janet Suzman
science writer
The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary. Hanya Yanagihara
science deities evolution
Midway from Nothing to the Deity! Edward Young
science lines way
A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity. Aristotle
science two fire
For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size. Aristotle
science
Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment. Seth MacFarlane
scripts hard
Good scripts are hard to find. Daniel Craig
scripts sticks defeat
I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object. Clive Anderson
scripts directors ifs
More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong. Douglas Booth
scripts merit picks
For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only. Amber Heard
scripts stories optimist
I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story. Viggo Mortensen
scripts helping
It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script. Victoria Pratt
scripts
Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasnt in the script. It was something that I came up with. Famke Janssen
scripts different three
I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do. Chris O'Dowd
scripts shooting hard
I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting. Chris Pine
source
Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff. Pat Harris
sources
They need to find new sources of revenue. Bruce Russell
stories
Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like. Jason Katims
stories earth events
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about. C. S. Lewis
stories ends
All you really have in the end are your stories. Burt Reynolds
stories research fantasy
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. Alan Dean Foster
stories next firsts
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it. Charles Colson
stories said knows
All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125) Elizabeth Strout
stories four philippines
I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more. Denis Johnson
stories seekers
You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders. Edgar Allan Poe
stories speak shoulders
So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me. Eduardo Galeano
using-words reason no-point
I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply. Theodore Sturgeon