Quotes About Fiction

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Some libraries have separate areas for fiction and nonfiction. Mrs. Surlaw didn't believe in that sort of thing. After all, who was she to decide what was true and what wasn't?

There is no Miss Zarves. There is no nineteenth story. Sorry.

up. It hit somewhere between the eighteenth and twentieth story. And never came down. There was no nineteenth story.

19 Miss Zarves There is no Miss Zarves. There is no nineteenth story. Sorry.

Miss Zarves taught the class on the nineteenth story. There was no Miss Zarves.

and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.

When the writing fit came on, she gave herself up to it with entire abandon, and led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world, full of friends almost as real and dear to her as any in the flesh.

As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures.

This suited the young lady better than twilight confidences, tender pressures of the hand, and eloquent glances of the eye; for with Jo, brain developed earlier than heart, and she preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because, when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

But having given the rein to her lively fancy, it galloped away with her at a great pace, and common sense, being rather weakened by a long course or romance writing, did not come to the rescue.

Rebates enabled them to maintain the fiction of listed rates while secretly giving discounts to favored shippers.

Para ser, tenemos que narrarnos, y en ese cuento de nosotros mismos hay muchísimo cuento: nos mentimos, nos imaginamos, nos engañamos.

Los novelistas no escriben sobre sus asuntos, sino en torno a ellos», dice Julian Barnes. Y Stephen Vizinczey redondea ese pensamiento con una frase precisa y luminosa: «El autor joven siempre habla de sí mismo incluso cuando habla de los demás, mientras que el autor maduro siempre habla de los demás, incluso cuando habla de sí mismo».

en el oficio de novelista hay algo aún mucho más importante que ese tintineo de palabras, y es la imaginación, las ensoñaciones, esas otras vidas fantásticas y ocultas que todos tenemos.

The publication arc of the Leatherstocking Tales parallels the Jackson presidency. For those who consumed the books in that period and throughout the nineteenth century—generations of young white men—the novels became perceived fact, not fiction, and the basis for the coalescence of US American nationalism.

Escribir es algo más que eso, es urdir, tejer, zurcir palabras, no importa si es una receta médica o una pieza de ficción. La diferencia es que la ficción consume cuerpo y alma.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

I was merely an onlooker; added to which, from the time I first read Pride and Prejudice I have loved Mr Darcy so much that no actual man has measured up to him.

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

she turned to the first page, feeling vaguely prurient, like an eavesdropper or a peeping tom. Novelists spend a lot of time poking their noses into other people's business. Ruth was not unfamiliar with this feeling.

but when I told her they didn't cost one penny and were very nutritious (I made that part up, but I'm sure it must be true), she ate them up. She packed them into her lunch pail this morning, and when I looked

were altered and aggrandised by enormous fantasy.

?e nie ma takiego nonsensu, którego umysÅ' ludzki nie byÅ'by zdolny wymyÅ›li?.