Quotes About Fiction

when she thought it over, Jane decided that she was really much more like Emma Woodhouse.

Prudence disliked being called 'Miss Bates'; if she resembled any character in fiction, it was certainly not poor silly Miss Bates.

Satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

Polite fictions are very important for dragons.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

The kneading of memory makes the dough of fiction, which, as we know, can go on yeasting for ever...

Si existiese un dios o algún ser omnisciente, este ser no podría forjar absolutamente ficción alguna

I had wanted to write The Possessed as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate students. It seems almost uncivilized to tell someone writing a novel, "No, you have to call this a memoir."

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed.

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

Reality TV is not real.

I have never liked the memoir form because I tend to think that memory fictionalizes anyway. Once you claim that you are writing a narrative purely from memory, you are already in the realm of fiction.

It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price.

There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do - or would want to see in real life.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.

Most writers of entertainment fiction tend to receive controversial reviews.

I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention.