Narrative Fiction Quotes
Collection of top 25 famous quotes about Narrative Fiction
Narrative Fiction Quotes & Sayings
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It's foolhardy to think that a story ends
— Madeleine Thien
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
The riskiest yet rewarding thing is to paint in our head of how our life is going to be.
— Sarvesh Jain
I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.
— Vikram Chandra
We want more of our products going overseas, but the trick is to have a level playing field.
— Rob Portman
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Reader, be assured this narrative is no fiction.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
— Edwidge Danticat
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
— Margaret Atwood
Marc Marronnier is twenty-seven years old, he has a beautiful apartment, a cool job and still he doesn't kill himself. Go figure.
— Frederic Beigbeder
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
— Kevin Wilson
A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.
— Isaac Babel
I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.
— Richard Ayoade
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.
— Anthony Horowitz
I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
— Patrick Ness
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
— E.L. Doctorow
The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such
— Georges Bataille
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.
— Ray McKinnon
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
— Ross Macdonald
Zing. Major zing.
— Cecily White
If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?
— Darin Strauss
[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.
— Plutarch
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.
— Emile M. Cioran