#fiction

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#devoted #fiction #including #journals #magazines

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

#obliged #possibilities #stick #truth

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#better #better person #child #entertained #fiction

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#characters #events #fiction #intimacy #places

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#because #did #fictions #i #interest

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#fiction #ironically #marketplace #must #nonfiction

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#dream #entertain #fiction #form #ideas

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#empathy #essays #fiction #stranger #theoretical

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#called #company #first #fun #girl

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime. ↗

— Karl Rove

#costs #country #dollar #economic #ever