Fiction Quotes - Page 25

• Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

  James Berardinelli

  Adventure, Character, Epic

  "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.

  John Joseph Griffin

  Thinking, Desire, Taught

  John Joseph Griffin (1838). “Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry”, p.14

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• Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.

  William Henry Maule

  Law, Justice, Consistent

  Whitaker v. Wisbey, 6 Cox, C. C. 111, 1852.

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• Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.

  Sara Sheridan

  Mistake, Thinking, Historical

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• Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

  Tom Shippey

  Trying, Literature, Hard

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• Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Magic, Skins, Scene

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• The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Moon, Land

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• I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously.

  Frederick Lenz

  Writing, Thinking, Important

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• While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

  Aristotle

  Book, Impossible, Language

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• Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Answers, Astronomy, Starting

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• I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

  Brandon Routh

  Growing Up, Fans, Fantasy

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, June 16, 2006.

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• I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Passion, Literature, Students

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.23, tredition

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• When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Writing, Literature

  "B is for bestseller". www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a superior influence on the passions and imagination.

  David Hume

  Taken, Passion, Reality

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.311

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• Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution. He devises paradise fictions to provide succor and support... In acts of supreme self-deception, at various times and in various places he has been willing to profess belief in the most incredible myths because of what they have promised him.

  Paul Kurtz

  Religious, Self, Support

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• Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Team, Years, Inspired

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• Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.

  Robert Kazinsky

  Geek, Fantasy, Massive

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• Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Powerful, Mean, Rivers

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• Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation. Untimely Ruins offers fresh and challenging insights about the American built environment on nearly every page.

  T. J. Jackson Lears

  Challenges, Log Cabins, Research

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• The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is political fiction.

  Ann McLane Kuster

  War, Believe, Political

  "War on Women Affects Us All" by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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• When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Echoes, Once Upon A Time, Shapes

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• In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

  Edward P. Jones

  Facts, Steps, Journalism

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• Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

  Horace

  Should, Please

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• Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

  William Hazlitt

  Animal, Men, Delight

  William Hazlitt (1854). “The Miscellaneous Works”

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• Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fables, Instruction, Allure

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