Fiction And Reality Quotes:

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

- Jean Baudrillard

source: "America" by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner, (p. 95), 1988.

topic: Reality, Opposites, Giving, Fiction And Reality

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

- Jessamyn West

source: Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Truth, Fiction And Reality

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

- Tom Clancy

topic: Life, Witty, Truth, Creative Writing, Fiction And Reality

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

- Jorge Luis Borges

topic: Life, Reality, Plausible, Fiction And Reality, Probable Cause

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

- Curtis Sittenfeld

topic: Reality, People, Fiction, Fiction And Reality

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

- J. G. Ballard

source: "Fictions of Every Kind" (1971)

topic: Reality, Fiction, Literature, Sprung, 20th Century

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

- Isak Dinesen

topic: Reality, Order, Fiction, Fiction And Reality

Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

- James Cameron

source: "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20,2010.

topic: Ocean, Reality, Space, Pop Culture, Expeditions

I had artists that refused to work on Chappie if they were working on a design that actually said Denel on the side of the thing. But anyway, it's the blurring of fiction and reality that was appealing and I certainly did not want them to be in the movie and not be themselves.

- Neill Blomkamp

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Artist, Reality, Design, Fiction And Reality