Quotes About Fiction

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

Towards the end, one of them [children in "The White Queen"] was older than I was in real life.

This Is Your FBI was inevitably compared to The FBI in Peace and War in the G-Man thriller parade. Radio Life concluded that both were worthy and there was little to distinguish one from the other. This Is was privy to official Bureau files, while Peace and War was mainly fiction. But Peace and War sounded authentic: its author, Frederick L. Collins, had received Bureau cooperation in his research, though the radio version of his subsequent book remained unsanctioned.

All Stories are True.

Morgarath watched, appalled, as twenty Rangers shot his attack to pieces.

Ze zal Cassandra heten. - Abdis Margrit

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

When we risk no contradiction,It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.

I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

we reporters are not all that incentivized to determine whether the underlying facts behind the leaks are truth or fiction. The fact that an important person said it is itself newsworthy.

Under a final section he called "Spiritual Gifts/Powers," Chad bizarrely wrote that wizards, sorcerers, and witches actually existed, as did the spells and curses in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, which required "great focused will to use.

That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will... but then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else... But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine tht kills the fascists.

true story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction.

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

The idea that humiliation is some capital crime of the spirit is a fiction. The sentences we hand down for losing control and succumbing to physical limits in life are arbitrary acts of self-loathing. All human beings have bodies that define their existence and which can veto the best-laid plans of the mind and soul.