Quotes About Fiction

And watch out for the blade, Constant Reader. It is a Stephen King story, after all.

Is Stephen King the Crimson King of this world?

La ficción es la verdad que se encuentra dentro de la mentira y la verdad de esta ficción es muy sencilla: La magia existe.

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story … to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

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A kiss may not be the truth but it is what we wish were true." L.A. Story (1991) – Harris Telemacher (Steve Martin)

There's no way to really preserve a person when they've gone and that's because whatever you write down it's not the truth, it's just a story. Stories are all we're ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles

The difference between mainstream fiction and literature is what their writers do with words; the former places its emphasis on the story rather than the language used to tell that story; in literature, the language is the story; that is, the story is primarily a vehicle for a linguistic display of the writer's rhetorical abilities.

It's both an alternative history of the novel and a history of the alternative novel.

John Dryden wrote that a work of fiction is "a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.

The key to good style, far more than obeying any list of commandments, is to have a clear conception of the make-believe world in which you're pretending to communicate.

You can write with clarity and with flair, too. And though the emphasis is on nonfiction, the explanations should be useful to fiction writers as well, because many principles of style apply whether the world being written about is real or imaginary. I like to think they might also be helpful to poets, orators, and other creative wordsmiths, who need to know the canons of pedestrian prose to flout them for rhetorical effect.

Today the campaign for world government lives on mainly among kooks and science fiction fans.

Beginning in the 17th century, technological advances in publishing and transportation created a Republic of Letters and a Reading Revolution in which the seeds of the Humanitarian Revolution took root (chapter 4). More people read books, including fiction that led them to inhabit the minds of other people, and satire that led them to question their society's norms.

Human sacrifice and witch-burnings are just two examples of the harm that can result from people pursuing ends that involve figments of their imagination.

I do not love fiction, I love history.

I love a really good storyline.

I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.

As far as subject matter, I'd say most of the songs aren't that personal to me. I love making up characters and kind of having fun in a different kind of way.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate.

The scientific world of matter can be reduced, in some sense, to its fundamental constituent elements: molecules, atoms, even quarks. However, the world of experience has primal constituents, as well. These are the necessary elements whose interactions define drama and fiction. One of these is chaos. Another is order. The third (as there are three) is the process that mediates between the two, which appears identical to what modern people call consciousness.

It is because our own experience is genuinely literary, narrative, embodied, and storylike that we are so attracted to fictional representations.

As pessoas que acompanham uma história estão dispostas a suspender a descrença, desde que as limitações que tornam a história possível sejam coerentes e consistentes. Os escritores, por sua vez, concordam em obedecer às suas decisões finais. Quando os escritores enganam, os fãs ficam irritados. Querem atirar o livro para a lareira e atirar um tijolo à televisão.