#fiction

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think. ↗

— Walter Salles

#always #because #better #come #documentaries

Her problem is with pretty,” Tennyson said. "She thinks I’ll need all these dresses in college. Like I would ever in a billion years pledge a sorority. I’ll pack a few of these to be ironic, though. I can wear them to, like, truck stops at night with mascara running down my cheeks and stuff. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#college #college-application #dresses #glass-girl #graduation

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#bad #character #create #every #fictional

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#am #big #fiction #i #i am

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue. ↗

— Plato

#children #esteem #fictions #first #greatest

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#after #bbc #been #capable #doctor

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. ↗

— Reynolds Price

#fiction #find #going #got #i

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

#basic #british #education #english #entire

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#different perspective #doing #fiction #future #little

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. ↗

— James Rollins

#both #fiction #i #inspiration #inspired