(28 quotes found)
“I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.”
Carlos Fuentes
“Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.”
Glenway Wescott
“They are factual ads. They reveal Stephen Harper's views on a number of issues. We think it's important for Canadians to be aware of where Mr. Harper stands.”
Amy Butcher
“You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.”
David Brock
“I think they need to be factual. It's too close in people's minds, ... `Based on a true story' should not happen here.”
Charles Wolf
“It's so fantastic and so unconnected to factual support, and so prejudicial.”
Clark Brewster
“The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener. It's rare that a song grounded in reality moves me because I don't feel like I'm getting the whole story. Songs are made to exist in and of themselves, like a great James Jones or Robert Louis Stevenson novel - they're not autobiographical, and yet there's a reality in every single page. It's real life of the imagination.”
Will Oldham
“We have no idea what the legal basis is for these claims, ... There seems to be no legal or factual basis for these claims since the state has played absolutely no role in this internal church dispute. ? We really, essentially, have no idea what they mean by this claim.”
Richard Blumenthal
“With this size accident you would expect a factual report in about three months ... and an analysis in nine to 12 months - it depends what they find.”
Peter Gibson
“What I want her to do is answer the basic factual questions then in the light of that we can review the position she's in.”
David Willetts
