Quotes About Fiction

Crear personajes que matan a los de los historiadores es privilegio de los novelistas, El motivo es que los historiadores evocan a simples fantasmas, mientras que los novelistas crean a personas de carne y hueso.

As a class they are lazy, irresponsible, immature. They are incapable of producing contemporary fiction because they know nothing about life, cannot reflect life, and have no adult comment to make about life. They are silly, childish people who have taken refuge in science fiction where they can establish their own arbitrary rules about reality to suit their own inadequacy. And like most neurotics, they cherish the delusion that they're special.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

Writing itself was a magical act in which imagination altered reality and gave form to power.

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

Isabel remembered what books had meant to her so long ago, and she suddenly had a longing for all those fictional worlds that had helped her through the worst years of her life.

Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world, a world not only of fact but of imagination and emotion.

To hell with human beings. I'd always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood.

It's just for people who want to escape real life." Isabel remembered what books had meant to her so long ago, and she suddenly had a longing for all those fictional worlds that had helped her through the worst years of her life.

In a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there.

Real life is unbelievable. Souls are snatched away from us, flesh and blood turn to dust, people you love betray you, men go to way over nothing. IT's all preposterous. That's why we have novels. To make sense out of things.

Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better.

She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word 'escape' used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.

Detestaba la palabra «evasión» aplicada a la ficción. Podría haber argumentado, y no solo por llevar la contraria, que la evasión era la vida real.

She hated to hear the word escape used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.

If this were fiction, as I said, it would be too much, but it is true.

She read modern fiction too. Always fiction. She hated to hear the word "escape" used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.

She hated to hear the word "escape" used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life that was the escape. But this was too important to argue about.

The idea that I caused his death by telling my parents I was a lesbian is perhaps illogical. Causality implies connection, contact of some kind. And however convincing they might be, you can't lay hands on a fictional character.

Some people tell lies about the past. Her dad tells lies about the future. He is always telling a new story.

La memoria es ficción. Seleccionamos lo más brillante y lo más oscuro, ignorando lo que nos avergüenza, y así bordamos el ancho tapiz de nuestra vida

Even a quick reading of Rizal's trial will prove that those who take Constantino's works uncritically are likewise guilty of Veneration Without Understanding. Since there is so much fiction and faction in history it is always essential to return to the sources.