#fiction

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#both #curse #everything #fictional #find

There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that. ↗

— Chris Morris

#buy #explain #fiction #i #international

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#easiest #event #fiction #find #how

One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#decisions #fictional #five #i #i think

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#actually #being #documentaries #documentary #dramas

You are so... 11:59 ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#fantasy #horror #midnighters #science-fiction #science

The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#science-fiction #science

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#by the time #could #feel #fiction #fiction writers

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#earth #expand #fiction #human #mars

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#everything #fiction #history #i #mathematics