Nonmimetic Quotes

#1. All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.

Nancy Kress

#2. What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

Howard Thurman

#3. Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

Ronald Reagan

#4. Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.

Richard Jackson

#5. Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!

Ray Winstone

#6. I don't know how to lead but by example.

Don Shula

#7. What a number of things a river does, by simply following Gravity in the innocence of its heart!

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

George W. Bush

#9. That lifestyle wears you down fast, so I started to take better care of myself. I exercise, sleep eight hours a night, take vitamins, eat organic foods, skip foods that aren't good for me, and I surround myself with amazing artists and friends.

Beth Riesgraf

#10. But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of her own. She was never moved by what I was doing (in an interview she said, "He writes his own material, I'm always telling him he needs a new writer") ...

Steve Martin

#11. You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.

John Irving

#12. Kindness is produced by kindness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero