Legal Fiction Quotes

#1. Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

Max Stirner

#2. I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce

#3. All writers and their readers should stand up and voice their opposition to financial services companies censoring books. Authors should have the freedom to publish legal fiction, and readers should have the freedom to read what they want.

Mark Coker

#4. The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government.

Jerry Brown

#5. "Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

Charles Dickens

#6. Lawyers aren't the most popular people, Miss Allen ... - Murder in Hand

Celia Conrad

#7. It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto-it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.

Edward Coke

#8. I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?

Ann M. Martin

#9. I am the prosecutor. I represent the state. I am here to present to you the evidence of a crime. Together you will weigh this evidence. You will deliberate upon it. You will decide if it proves the defendant's guilt.

Scott Turow

#10. People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.

Ruth Ozeki

#11. Having vision is much more than just being visual.

Heru Ofori-Atta

#12. If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.

Robert Jordan

#13. I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

Rosanna Arquette

#14. But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

Dwight Yoakam

#15. How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.

Gary Shteyngart

#16. I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I'm doing fiction.

Gore Vidal

#17. There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.

Candace Camp

#18. I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and practicing law for ten years. Not sure what I am now.

Jeffrey Rasley

#19. The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future's shape, look to the past.

John Pipkin

#20. There is a purpose in life's struggles. Without them, we stay the same.

Auliq Ice

#21. The deep breathe you just took to show that your problems are bigger than you, is the final breathe someone had taken right now in his life! As long as your breathe is not the final one, you still have a hope!

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Louise Brown

#23. The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

Theodore Zeldin

#24. People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge will see any holes. If you do that in fiction, it's too long and boring.

William Lashner

#25. The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#26. If you live your life with passion, every second will become an adventure.

Marie Guillaume