Quotes About Fiction

Pero, ¿qué es eso de país? ¿En serio seguimos jugando a ese juego? ¿Todavía no hemos pasado esa pantalla, como especie? ¿Qué es un país? Dime, Séptimo. ¿Qué es una patria? Es una ficción, hermano, una ficción peligrosa.

She could possibly hit the best-seller list if she sold it as a novel, though.

Flying carpets were severely lacking in safety features like seatbelts.

... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

I know they are naught things, but I devour novels." (p. 57).

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

I am single because apparently the only good men are fictional.

If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

They really are good together, though I'm not sure they see it." She chuckled. "Leave it to my granddaughter to accidently choose Mr. Right to be her fake fiancé.

I always, always wanted to be the Dungeon Master because that's where the creativity lies - in thinking up places, characters and situations. If done well, a game can be a novel in itself.

I absolutely could create a lightsaber." "You could not create a lightsaber." "I could too. It's all a science." "I thought being a Jedi was mystical?" Irene snorted. "Mystical, my butt. It's all about science.

I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.