#fiction

Palaeontologists use fiction all the time. ↗

— Norman Macleod

#time #use

I wondered whose job it was to blow sunshine into my ears. ↗

— B.V. Larson

#science

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#century #cumulative #fiction #great #image

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. ↗

— Yann Martel

#book #fiction #flip #idea #me

And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story) ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#science-fiction #dreams

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#accomplish #art #creates #direction #etc

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies. ↗

— Rob Morrow

#fiction #i #learned #lot #morality

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#fiction #writing #beauty

Not everyone can be rich,' Peter went on. 'Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave! If we tell ourselves we can do it; if we say to our hearts, 'don't jump about'; if we carry ourselves like heroes... we can all be brave! We can all look Danger in the face and be glad to meet it, and draw our swords and say, 'Have at you, Danger! You don't scare me!' Courage is just there for the taking; you don't need money to buy it. You don't need to go to school to learn it! Courage is the thing, isn't it? Don't you think so, people? Aren't I right? Courage is the thing! All goes if courage goes! ↗

— Geraldine McCaughrean

#peter-pan #beauty

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#happiness #joy #life #non-fiction-books-inspirational #pain