Quotes About Fiction

Even within escapist cinema, if you find a good story to tell, it will do well.

Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth.

I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.

I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'

I tell a good story.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

When I read a good story, I often start thinking, 'Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?' It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.

A good story isn't preachy; a good story is always entertaining.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

Yes, there was the PFAM. The Psychological Front Against Martians.

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the work itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the work, whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; great men, as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

there is no being behind doing, effecting, becoming; the doer is merely a fiction added to the deed—the deed is everything.

But there is no such substratum; there is no being behind doing, effecting, becoming; the doer is merely a fiction added to the deed-the deed is everything.

The work of a suffering and tortured God, the world then seemed to me. The dream and fiction of a god, the world then seemed to me.; coloured smoke before the eyes of a discontented god. [...] The creator wished to look away from himself; so he created the world. [...] a drunken joy to its imperfect creator.

Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?

Reason' is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.… But Heraclitus will always be right in this, that being is an empty fiction. The 'apparent' world is the only one: the 'real' world has only been lyingly added…

Morality is a fiction used by a herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior ones..!!

LATER THAN YOU THINK Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1950. Obviously the Archeologist's study belonged to an era vastly distant from today. Familiar similarities here and there only sharpened the feeling of alienage.

that the book is really good. and theres a prince in it to.

I write fiction for lots of reasons. One is power. I'm in charge when I write. So are you. You create the world of the story. You make the rules.