Fictioneer Quotes

#1. The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe. God, of course, working with facts, faces no limitation.

Donald E. Westlake

#2. Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

Geoffrey Wolff

#3. Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

Eric Hoffer

#4. Hillary Clinton said she hopes America is ready for a woman in the Oval Office. That was the great thing about her husband Bill: he was always ready for a woman in the Oval Office.

Jay Leno

#5. There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#6. In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any kind of anything, any hint, any tip of how to make it easy.

Sue Townsend

#7. All actions are of the relative-self (prakrutik). Moksha (liberation) is the absence of attachment and abhorrence therein.

Dada Bhagwan

#8. What stress really does, though, is deplete willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions.

Roy F. Baumeister

#9. I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.

Milan Kundera