Quotes About Fiction

Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.

To write you dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams.

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.

I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.

Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!!

I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the "what if?" lens.

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

All life is only allegory and the real story is not here...

Love is fantasy....Life is reality

We are human because we can fantasize.

Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive.

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

I think the camouflage of fiction allows more authenticity – you know, acknowledging that it is a 'fiction', a terrific lie, and that you want it to be believed.

Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?

There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.

For obvious reasons, the relationship between novelists, the reviewing establishment and critics in general is chronically, and often acutely, edgy. A kind of low-intensity warfare prevails, with outbreaks of savagery. It is partly an ownership issue. Who, other than its creator, is to say what a work of fiction means or is worth? It can take years to write a novel and only a few hours for a critic, or a reviewer rushing for a tight deadline, to trash it.

Like Hitler in 1923, Putin from 1991 onwards breathed a poisonous fiction, that his country had been wronged, that it 'had been stabbed in the back'. In truth, it fell apart because it had been wrong, it had stabbed itself in the front, three times over.

a good story was frequently superior to the truth?