Quotes About Fiction

One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do.

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.

Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

Stories are just lies made to look like truth.

Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.

She has several imaginary conversations with him and two imaginary arguments.

I think you have to identify with all your characters to some extent, or they just don't come off the page properly.

I didn't think places like this existed outside films.

day fiction, but two of the best books I've read recently—Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel and The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber—are set several centuries ago.

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.

Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in drearily pedestrian prose, frequently ridiculous and wilfully bizarre. Needless to say, I doubt you'll believe a word of it.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

You create your story in consciousness as you interpret your own behavior, and as you listen to other people's thoughts about you. The life story is not the work of a historian [...]; it is more like a work of historical fiction that makes plenty of references to real events and connects them by dramatizations and interpretations that might or might not be true to the spirit of what happened.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Well, maybe that would have happened if the world hadn't ended. It did. The world ended. On a friday.

the recent novel by his wife Rebecca Goldstein, entitled 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, subtitled A Work of Fiction). The

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.