Jeff Feuerzeig famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.
-- Jeff Feuerzeig

#Fiction Stories #Stranger #Truth Is
Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.
-- Jeff Feuerzeig

#Powerful #Fiction #Myth
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.
-- Jeff Feuerzeig

#Art #Madness #Poet
In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.
-- Jeff Feuerzeig

#Art #Thinking #People
When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.
-- Jeff Feuerzeig

#Artist #Literature #Want
In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.
-- Jeff Feuerzeig

#College #Southern #Literature
When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story not thinking about who wrote it.
-- Jeff Feuerzeig

#Book #Writing #Thinking
What is fiction or cinema if not escape?
-- Jeff Feuerzeig

#Cinema #Fiction #Ifs
You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have.
-- Jeff Feuerzeig

#Feelings #Want #Persons

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.
Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
The truth is in the mystery.
The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.
Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

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