Fictive Quotes

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. (Leonhard Euler)
When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals. Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. View quote
Gerhard Richter
This will make widows wince. But fictive things Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince. View quote
Wallace Stevens
A fictive covering Weaves always glistening from the heart and mind. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary. View quote
Jacques Lacan
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones. View quote
David Brin
I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people. View quote
Jean Giono
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play. View quote
Paul Watzlawick
How simply the fictive hero becomes the real; How gladly with proper words the solider dies, If he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech. View quote
Wallace Stevens
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling. (A. S. Byatt)
For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire. View quote
Will Self
His petty syllabi, the sounds that stick, Inevitably modulating, in the blood. And war for war, each has its gallant kind. How simply the fictive hero becomes the real; How gladly with proper words the solider dies, If he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Many writers believe that voice, which is character-based, is the same as style, which I believe is more author-based. The writer almost always has her own style, but I believe that in addition to being drawn to a particular author's style, readers are also drawn to the singularity of the fictive voice, which is somewhat variant from work to work... View quote
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