#fiction

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #bible #culture #emphatically #fiction

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#dwell #faulkner #fiction #framework #geography

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#books #enjoy #fiction #gothic #i

Go and you will see that nothing is as wonderful as our dreams can make it ↗

— Carolyn Turgeon

#dreams

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#arrive #bright #case #condition #fairy

If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same. ↗

— Stacy Hawkins Adams

#faith #fiction #hope #inspirational #women-s-fiction

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre. ↗

— Anna Torv

#diverse #fiction #genre #kind #more

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. ↗

— Mark Twain

#make #sense #stranger #than #truth

Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. ↗

— Gerald Clarke

#journalism #non-fiction #seriously #taken #truman

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. ↗

— David Eddings

#fiction #general #hesitate #i #mankind