Popular Fiction Quotes: top 33 famous quotes about Popular Fiction

Popular Fiction Quotes & Sayings

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When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you're just never quite good enough. — Dawn Gluskin

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century. — Paul Fry

The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue. — Susie Orbach

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.' — Louise Mensch

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers? — Jill Ker Conway

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know. — Sigmund Freud

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks

Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew. — Austin O'Malley

Lawyers aren't the most popular people, Miss Allen ... - Murder in Hand — Celia Conrad

Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones. — George R R Martin

Every disease we have is a blessing. — Burbuqe Raufi

I'm not just the sum of how I look although that seems to be a popular opinion, and it infuriates me. — Siobhan Davis

Every day you live is a lesson in itself. — T.A. Uner

I'm going to beat Alexis Davis then take a nap — Ronda Rousey

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 learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics. — John Grisham

people who feel that fiction should be easy to read, that it's a popular medium — David Foster Wallace

Some things may be learned from words on a page, but some skills are learned first by a man's hands and heart, and later by his head. — Robin Hobb

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction. — Kurt Vonnegut

Popular fiction's a strong and viable force in literature. That's why it's popular. — Nora Roberts

Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go. — Paul Simon

I have gone to the forest — Knut Hamsun

It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart — Michael Jordan

I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television. — Shania Twain

Amazing, the power of fiction, even cheap popular fiction, to evoke. — Philip K. Dick

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular. — Heather Dubrow

I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre. — Ben Lerner

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV. — Gail Carson Levine

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

No wonder being a real Christian isn't popular. Who wants to suffer so they can find joy?" ~ Dianne Simmons — Michelle Sutton

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens. — Jodi Picoult