“The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.” ThinkingMayTwoPhilosophyFictionClearCuttingBoundaries Author:Ken Follett
“Listen to others as if they are telling you the truth, ask questions when you aren't clear, and allow others the room to have different feelings than you. No more assigning hidden motives, prejudging and cutting people off before separating fact from fiction.” PeopleIfsDifferentFactsFeelingsAsksRoomsFictionClearCuttingMotiveSeparatingDifferent Feelings Author:Rhonda Britten
“Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.” WorldWantLiteratureEnjoyFictionCuttingFeetStreetsActivityRest Of Life Author:Mario Vargas Llosa
“I've got things I have to do in fiction to sort of register my existence, before I kick the bucket, but it will never be my living and I know it. Plus it never moved fast enough for me and lacked cut and thrust. I need to be in the real show.” KnowsNeedsRealEnoughShowsExistenceFictionCuttingMovedKicksPlusThrustRegisterBuckets Author:William Monahan
“Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.” LooksMeanCareChoicesForceFictionMeditationCuttingShareAbsolutesScience FictionExtremesWideCoffeeHipsSpouseJeansZealMountaineeringGreat Coffee Author:Virginia Postrel
“It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be fiction though, because I needed that freedom of including whatever belonged, and cutting out whatever didn't. The main fiction in it was matching Julius' generous and self-concealing character to New York's generous and self-concealing character. I think this also adds to my answer about New York's personality in the book.” ThinkingBookSelfCharacterAnswersFictionCuttingNew YorkPersonalityNeededAddIncludingGenerousExplicitMatchingJuliusConcealing Author:Teju Cole
“Very, very often in movie sex you see this fiction about unity. A union. That somehow these two thinking beings become one, and there's one action and they're sort of perfectly in sync, and the lighting's perfect, and they've got their eyes closed, and they're gone, you know? And then you cut to someone having a cigarette. And it's all so much Novocain. Meanwhile, those of us us watching it are going "I'm never going to tell anybody, but I never have sex like that".” ThinkingKnowsTwoEyeActionSexPerfectFictionGoneCuttingUnionsUnityNow And ThenCigaretteLightingSync Author:Tilda Swinton
“Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.” LittlesLiteratureLeftFictionCuttingDramaEpicQuarrelsHygieneEpic Poetry Author:Robert Staughton Lynd