“Given that external realityis a fiction, the writer's roleis almost superfluous. Hedoes not need to invent thefiction because it is alreadythere.”
J. G. Ballard
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers.”
Ellen Hopkins
Identical
“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”
Aljean Harmetz
Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II
“Sometimes life kicks you in the teeth with an irony that a self-respecting fiction writer would be ashamed to invent.”
David Morrell
Fireflies
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”
Flannery O'Connor
“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.”
Leonardo da Vinci