Quotes About Fiction

As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any fake life, that make writing about it so challenging.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

I write larger than life. It's what I do.

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

In our exterior life, we can be only one person. But in our imagination, we can be anyone, anywhere.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there's nothing out there in fiction about blended families.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

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

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.

Nobody's life is as romantic as it is in fiction.

I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them!

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one's socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ("Another empty room")

Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented.Reality needs none of the above.

Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.

The details of what we call our lives go sometimes to form patterns of meaning not unlike those to be found in our preferred sort of fiction.