“The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.” DoeFeelingsSpiritStuffBrainFictionQualityPerception Book:Selected essays Source: Selected essays
“... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.” YearsTwoTruthFictionQualityNovelPerceptionHundredUniversalFiftyTruth Of LifeImaginativeTruthfulness Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity.” HumansHomeVoiceFictionCommunicationPerceptionUltimateImpulseNovelistsMultipleAmbiguityNuanceMultiplicity Author:Pankaj Mishra
“One would expect an actress to stand onscreen mostly as a caricature. If she would say, "I'm selling shoes," you would believe her. She says it and it creates this fiction, non-fiction perception of the film. People believe it because she says it. If she said, "I'm a butcher," people would believe it too, I think.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveSaidFilmFictionPerceptionShoesActressesSellingNon FictionCaricaturesButchersSelling Shoes Author:Isabelle Huppert
“There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth than the other; that the distance has perhaps to do with distance - narrative distance - from the characters; it has to do with the kind of voice that is talking, but it certainly hasn't to do with the common distribution between fact and imagination.” KindCharacterFactsVoiceImaginationCommonFictionTalkingGreaterPerceptionClaimsDistanceNarrativeDistributionNon Fiction Author:E. L. Doctorow