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“[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.”

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Book:Bully!

Source: Bully!

“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”

Seems Science Literature Fiction Accounts Aim Biographies Silent Spring

Author:Rachel Carson

“Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.”

Fiction Ignorance Discovery Accounts Ancient Legends Biblical Brushes Archaeology

Author:Charlie Campbell

“Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality. This account of lives transformed and ruined by the triumph of a totalitarian rule is a timely reminder of how moral and intellectual laziness and apathy can pave the road to the reign of terror brought on by such a system.”

Heart Reality Fiction Moral Intellectual Accounts Terror Triumph Apathy Transformed Laziness Reign Testament Ruined Reminders Visa Timely Avalon Reign Of Terror Intellectual Laziness

Author:Azar Nafisi

“Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales of science fiction writers - perhaps this will constitute the true revolution of the future. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.”

Humans Spirit Lying Humanity Fiction Planets Revolution Civilization Accounts Science Fiction Tales Legends Solitary Human Spirit Frontiers Fiction Writers New Frontiers Rediscovery

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Stories Fiction Streets Battle Equal Accounts Rate Demonstration Factual

Author:John Cheever

“Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.”

Way Giving Lasts Fiction Accounts Nails Stop Time

Author:Rebecca West

“Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in getting medical details straight - then you might begin to wonder whether cholera is the only candidate for the cause of Aschenbach's death. What results from this, I think, is a deeper appreciation of Mann's brilliance in keeping so many possibilities in play. The ambiguity is even more artful than people have realized.”

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Author:Philip Kitcher

“[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.”

Writing Made Happens Fiction Accounts Writing Fiction Swiss

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been. It's a weird thing, having to give an account of yourself, to try to make sense of yourself for yourself. I'm not that old, but I have been writing fiction professionally for a long time now. I started so young and went so hard for so long. And I guess it was about feeling I had the space to look over my shoulder.”

Giving Writing Trying Looks Long Has Beens Hard Feelings Young Space Fiction Long Time Accounts Shoulders Who I Am Make Sense Looking Back Weird Things Writing Fiction

Author:Tim Winton

“How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?”

Men Mind Said States Past Time Fiction Accounts Sensations State Of Mind Discrepancies Discrepancies Between

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like the present,-considerably more scientific than poetical,-science substitutes for the smaller poetry of fiction, the great poetry of truth.”

Age Science Fiction Class Weakness Accounts Urges Substitutes Betray Decline Complaints Great Poet Great Poetry

Book:Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh

Source: Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh

“Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.”

World Way Facts Stories Form Science Literature Fiction Knowledge Practice History Knowing Fashion Objects Accounts Function Historical Narrative Appropriate Biology Organisms Discourse

Author:Donna J. Haraway