#fictions

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one. ↗

— Anne Carson

#fictions #respect

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me. ↗

— Alice Munro

#best #everything #feel #fictions #happens

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#short #dreams

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead. ↗

— Julian Castro

#already #because #connect #far #fictions

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#each #exist #fictions #grammatical #groups

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#because #did #fictions #i #interest

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#alone #away #being #carried #danger