Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Abraham Verghese

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.

Doris Lessing

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.

Michael Connelly

What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles.

Alfred Hitchcock

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.

Raymond Carver

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

Ray Bradbury

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.

Siri Hustvedt

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.

Neil Gaiman

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Ann Cleeves

Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.

Jane Fonda

When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

Bob Dylan

I can't stand to see myself on television.

Dirk Benedict

Movies are movies, television is television.

Clint Walker

Boy, after doing television for all those years, doing all those scenes-rush, rush, rush-what a pleasure.

Criss Angel

I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

Dan Harmon

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

E. B. White

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

Douglas Hurd

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Angela Lansbury

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

David Hare

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

Annie Dillard

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

Stephen King

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Garth Nix

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

Isabel Allende

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.

Freeman Dyson

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

J. J. Abrams

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.