Quotes About Fiction

Stories are a different kind of true.

I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

La historia dice "así fue"; la novela propone "así pudo ser".

All memory is a form of fiction. But all fiction is a form of reality.

If this isn't exactly what went down, it's certainly how it should have happened.

Lincoln was not keen on admitting West Virginia as it had "seceded" from Virginia—which was a state and Lincoln would never concede that it, and other "so called" Confederate states, had left the Union.11 So, supporters of West Virginia created a legal fiction that what became West Virginia, was really the authentic Commonwealth of Virginia.

when Melanchthon recalled it, although, as we have said, he was not yet in Wittenberg when it happened, and was really only recounting the recollections of others who had been there. So when he did, he was speaking in the way so many of us do when remembering things: we aren't telling an untruth but conflating things in a way that is not perfectly and literally accurate, specifically to make a larger point, and, as good fiction does, to tell a greater truth.

Las historias de las revistas son mentira: el trabajo duro y la perseverancia no llevan al éxito.

Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what matters wonderful

Good historical fiction can bring those sights, smells, and even the oppressive heat so alive, you feel that you are there,

Like, Jayno-eyes? That's just as stupid as Berrystumpytail," his sister replied.

It's one of those StarClan-cursed stoats!

Maybe Breezepaw wouldn't be such an annoying furball if he had Brambleclaw for a father instead of Crowfeather.

Firestar's ill!

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RAVENPAW: A small black loner

I must warn her about Tigerclaw

And still, even when he'd told her how he felt about her, and that he wanted their fake relationship to be real, she'd held herself back out of fear that their friends-to-lovers story was too good to be anything but fiction.

Romance it is undoubtedly who whispers to every man that life is not a blind and aimless business, not all a hopeless waste and confusion; and that his existence is a pageant (appreciatively observed by divine spectators), and that he is strong and excellent and wise: and to romance he listens, willing and thrice willing to be cheated by the honeyed fiction.

Fiction, in the magazines, is presently going to be in the same position as poetry, namely filler. A respectable kind of filler.

Things that you write are in some degree autobiographical, but the first thing you find out about autobiography is that it's the hardest thing in the world to write. It's hard because it's very difficult to be absolutely factual about yourself. So ... when you write, you may draw on facts from your own life, but if their not in harmony with your story, they're worse than useless. You just stumble over them.

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

Your ghost,' she said, 'Nicholas Nickleby. Do you think he might still be at the crime scene?' 'How should I know?' I said. 'I don't even believe in ghosts.