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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
fiction life-is stranger
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. Neil Gaiman
magazines dip use
The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing. Tina Fey
magazines fairness remember
Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth. Michael Jackson
magazines television radio
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. Ezra Taft Benson
magazines helping expensive
I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save. Tyra Banks
magazines stuff events
I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff. Mandy Moore
magazines looks used
You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living. Lester Bowie
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
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
word
What four-letter word do they have in mind? ... Hero? Geraldo Rivera
words-of-wisdom connected
And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth? Plato
words
Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice. Source Unknown
word
Shocked. Only word I can say. That's it: shocked. Ryan Church
words-of-wisdom elements shapes
Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things. Gottfried Leibniz
words-of-wisdom granted subjects
I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one. Gottfried Leibniz
words
It was enough just to sit there without words. Louise Erdrich