Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur C. Clarke

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Anton Chekhov

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Denis Diderot

How easy it is to tell tales!

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

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Chuck D.

I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money.

David Greenwood

I can't put labels ? on these materials,

Wayne Dyer

Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross.

Mickey Gilley

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

John C. Maxwell

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

Nikki Haley

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

Phil Leigh

The labels are pushing the subscription services approach.

Shelby Lynne

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

Marco Rubio

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

Billy Thornton

There is a real fantasy with the American West, ... When you really make it big in Hollywood or on Wall Street, you want to fulfill that fantasy.

George Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

E. L. James

God forbid that women have fantasies.

Steven Spielberg

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

Jennifer Lopez

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

Gurdjieff Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

Cassandra Clare

The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.

Molly Quinn

I love, love, love fantasy, like Lord of the Rings and things like that.