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“The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.”

People Way Book Sometimes Literature Deals Fiction Quality Truth Is Pure Assuming Response Curiosity Mediums Affected Outlook

Author:Vance Palmer

“The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”

Facts Form Fiction Pure Edges Can Not Fables Symmetry Ragged Narration

Book:The Poems of Herman Melville

Source: The Poems of Herman Melville

“[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.”

“The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'. Only egotism exists.”

Humans Feelings Light Turns Evil Stars Human Beings Race Half Fiction Sky Morality Pure Disappear Human Race Void Particles Egotism Victorian Icy Good Evil

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“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.”

Knows Writing Eye Joy Imagination Differences Fiction Pure Discovering Travel Writing Pure Joy

Book:The Great Railway Bazaar

Source: The Great Railway Bazaar

“Lizzie Pepper is pure fiction! The character is pulled from tabloids. But I think we all look at celebrity marriages and invest in them.”

Thinking Looks Character Fiction Pure Tabloids Peppers

Author:Hilary Liftin

“This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted.... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic.”

Left Fiction Magic Pure Science Fiction Optimistic Collections Appropriate Magnificent Delighted Breathless

Author:Amal El-Mohtar

“One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.”

Thinking Should Ends Use Purpose Causes Natural Fiction Effects Communication Pure Concepts Scientist Presses Explanation Conventional Cause And Effect Prevailing Designation

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité is film in its purest form. You're taking random images and creating meaning out of random images, telling a story, getting meaning, capturing something that's real, that's really happening, and render this celluloid sculpture of this real thing. That's what really separates the power of doc filmmaking from fiction.”

Art Real Stories Film Form Fiction Pure Creating Happenings Theater Architecture Narrative Cinema Filmmaking Sculpture Real Things Art History Culmination Celluloid

Author:George Hickenlooper

“But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.”

Should Writing Facts Hate Fiction Talent Pure I Hate Foundation Invention Liars Fabric Airy

Author:Lord Byron

“The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.”

Writing Stories Song Difficult Fiction Events Pure Limits

Author:Jason Mraz

“If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale. Fiction is closest to pure narrative, and pure narrative is simply the logic we try to impose on an ever-changing reality.”

Ifs Trying Art Reality Fiction Risk Pure Logic Tales Narrative Fairy Fairy Tale Closest Risk It Changing Reality

Author:Chris Abani

“I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!”

Should Believe I Believe Fiction Changed Pure Perfection

Author:Arielle Ford