“There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.” GivingWritingRealRomanceReadingInterestDifferencesFictionFantasyMysteryParticularReaderHorrorScience FictionGenreCriticizeRealisticFlavorRealistic Fiction Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.” EndsLawReligionSocialDifferencesFictionAimMonstrosity Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides it much, much more. Fiction doesn't necessarily reveal what it's doing with rhythm and sound and patterning.” DoeUseSoundDifferencesFictionToolsRhythmPrimariesPoetry Is Author:Brian Evenson
“The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.” KnowsWritingEyeJoyImaginationDifferencesFictionPureDiscoveringTravel WritingPure Joy Book:The Great Railway Bazaar Source: The Great Railway Bazaar
“I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do.” PeopleThinkingWritingHumansDoeI CanFactsActionDifferencesDealsRaceFictionReaderBest ThingsHuman RaceGood Questions Author:Neil Gaiman
“You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.” IfsArtCareLanguageDifferencesFictionSentencesConstructionNon FictionArtificeArt And Life Author:Ethan Canin
“We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors. You can't wash away your life's history, which is written on your face, unless you get a facelift.” ThinkingFilmFacesActorsDifferencesLevelsFictionWrittenYour FaceDocumentariesFacelifts Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do.” WritingStoriesWantedDifferencesFictionBossEditorsShort StoryNonfictionDestined Author:Frank Deford
“Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.” ThinkingRealDifferencesFictionAwarenessConfusedConfusing Author:Errol Morris
“There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.” RealityNamesDifferencesFictionMake SenseOld Saying Author:Tom Clancy
“I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies.” KnowsBelieveWellsBigsLyingDifferencesFictionHonestInvolvedDon't BelieveLike MeFilmmakerOrganizedDocumentaries Author:Peter Greenaway
“How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.” KnowsMindStatesPastDifferencesFictionState Of MindReconcile Author:Douglas Adams
“My biggest difference with our film and those kinds of science fiction films is that they are going from one special effect set piece to the next, what we were doing was more of a character study. And I think that is the freedom that you get by doing an Indie film. You can only really do that with a lower budget. So I understand where the conflict is between those two priorities.” ThinkingKindTwoCharacterFilmNextDifferencesFictionStudyPiecesSpecialEffectsConflictScience FictionPrioritiesBudgetsSpecial EffectsIndie Films Author:Duncan Jones
“There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.” IfsWritingLittlesStoriesWould BeDifferencesFictionBoysNovelDogKillingMonstersMemoirMy DogEricDoing Me Author:Paul Auster
“For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.” ThinkingWayWritingWellsKindTwoFactsHouseDifferencesFictionFailingWrittenNew YorkExampleBuildingBrokenSummerTablesGreenWinterExperimentsMessMaking A DifferenceJournalBroken DownVermontShackLeviathan Author:Paul Auster
“The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.” CharacterDifferencesFictionBrokenLegsJournalismInterviewsTapeDisguise Author:Sylvie Simmons
“The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.” DifferencesViewsFictionPoint Of ViewStorytellingNonfictionArtificialFunny ThingsBosniaFiction And Nonfiction Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.” WorldWritingDifferencesFictionAcademicPlausibleAcademic Writing Author:Elliott Colla
“Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.” WorldHumansSoulRealityMightRunningImaginationDifferencesFictionEternalEssenceRidingDay To DayHuman SoulDonkey Author:Chad Harbach
“Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but I do want the story to have the feel of history. There's a difference.” ThinkingWantFeelsWritingStoriesDifferencesFictionNovelMagicMysteryHistoricalHistorical FictionHistorical Novels Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry.” ArtDifferencesFictionTaughtFormerProseLatterFlash Author:Matthea Harvey
“Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.” KnowsI CanRealFactsProblemBigsKidsStuffDifferencesLinesFictionBoysGrowing UpIssuesGrowingCrazySeriousIndustryEntertainmentHandleSpillsEntertainment IndustryBlurrySerious IssuesNewsworthyFact And Fiction Author:Rob Lowe
“I would love to take control of the entire universe and for five years you give every movie the same widespread distribution no matter what movie and see if there's a real discrepancy between people coming to see science-fiction films or superhero films. I seriously bet there would be no discernible difference.” PeopleIfsGivingYearsRealMatterWould BeFilmUniverseDifferencesFictionFiveNo Matter WhatScience FictionFive YearsSuperheroDistributionTake ControlDiscrepanciesDiscrepancies Between Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.” PeopleFactsDifferencesFictionPagesConcernedFifteenDictionary Author:Charles de Lint
“In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.” PeopleWantGivingBelieveLongFactsLyingCan DoDifferencesFictionCommitmentPrejudiceJournalismNovelistsJust OneContrastLegitimacy Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez