Fictionalize Quotes

#1. As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.

Matthew Pearl

#2. I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it.

Junot Diaz

#3. I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth.

Kit Harington

#4. I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

Kristin Gore

#5. Perhaps the most significant thing George Lucas did in creating 'Star Wars' was to fictionalize the Tao - to spark a universe where we can talk about the Force in objective terms and show it in direct action.

Matthew Stover

#6. It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

Kate Bornstein

#7. He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. In your serenity there is a clarity, strength and correctness that is beyond the petty scuffles of the moment - a greater truth. It is the truth of who you are; beautiful, calm, secure, open, willing and safe.

Bryant McGill

#9. They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people brought up reading for facts, who know what's going to come next and want to know what's coming next, and get angry at surprises.

William Gaddis

#10. The true test of love is not always 'Will you fight for it?' The real test of true love is often 'Are you willing to give it up?

Tiffany Reisz

#11. Sculpture occupies real space like we do ... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

Chuck Close

#12. Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.

Gilles Menage

#13. All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

David Ives

#14. It is much better to earn a living with a pen than with power,

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#15. Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Karl Kraus

#16. Influential people aren't buffeted by the latest trend or by public opinion. They form their opinions carefully, based on the facts. They're more than willing to change their mind when the facts support it, but they aren't influenced by what other people think - only by what they know.

Travis Bradberry

#17. When theres no other dude in the car, the cost of taking an Uber anywhere becomes cheaper than owning a vehicle. So the magic there is, you basically bring the cost below the cost of ownership for everybody, and then car ownership goes away.

Travis Kalanick

#18. Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. That was the end of it.
Lights out.
For ever.

Ozzy Osbourne

#20. Why can't one stop being a son without becoming a father?

Philip Larkin

#21. I have to laugh to myself. I don't find it work to write music, because I enjoy it. I'd find an evening of bridge hard work because you have to think like hell, and at the end, you get nothing for it.

Richard Rodgers