#fiction

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#big #character #fiction #great #had

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate. ↗

— Greg Bear

#debate #fiction #science #science fiction #stimulates

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#fiction #i #influences #me #non-fiction

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#embarrassed #i #nonfiction #say #two

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#country #encompass #fiction #films #global

For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator. ↗

— Dwain K. White Sr.

#inspirational #love #nonfiction #romance #dreams

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost! ↗

— Henry James

#authorship #fiction #writing #art

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#rewriting-history #beauty

Love is when you’d rather see someone one last time and die, than never see their face again. ↗

— Bryan Butvidas

#fantasy-fiction #fantasy-romance #romance #death

Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#science-fiction #life