Quotes About Fiction

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.

Our ancestors acted out a drama, a fiction: they personified the force that governs fate as a spirit that can be bargained with, traded with, as if it were another human being. And the amazing thing is that it worked.

escribo porque me gusta vivir las vidas vicarias que se multiplican en mis tramas y porque, aun reconociendo la vacuidad de la empresa, finjo así que el mundo importa

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?

But the reason that writers like Harlan and Lee don't outline is that they enjoy the serendipity, the surprises that arise when they're not constricted by the steel girdle of an outline. And I get that too. Some of the best plot twists in my work have been ones that I didn't plan on, including the ending to PARANOIA. One of the great pleasures of writing fiction is living in the story so that you "experience" it the way your characters do.

Movies are different from real life.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

We've been battle training!" Mistpaw exclaimed, bounding up to Frostpaw. "I killed Graypaw!" "Did not!" Graypaw retorted as he joined his littermates. "I was just pretending, so I could grab you and shred you!

ASHFUR TRULY LOVED SQUIRRELFLIGHT and was bitterly hurt when she passed him over in favor of Brambleclaw.

Imagine having such a sour-tongued warrior for a father. I'm glad I'm not Breezepaw!

Graystripe is the best!

Heatherstar of WindClan told this ridiculous story

Why did Tigerheart want to see Dovepaw anyway? Did he have a crush on her?

was leaf-bare?" Meadowslip asked. Brackenwing ran the tip of her tail along Reena's spine. "Did you find somewhere warm to shelter?" "We stayed cozy," Reena reassured them. Her gaze flicked over Larksplash. "Are you a warrior yet?" "I've been a mentor

CLOVERFOOT—gray tabby she-cat RIPPLETAIL—white tom

Do you and Barley have kits?" she mewed. "Er, no," Ravenpaw answered.

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Sleekpaw was a yellow she-cat, and

rogues?" Rosepetal sounded shocked. Sometimes

Wow! your book is a tour de force the research that you must have done to cover such a huge amount of years is amazing I loved the book you are a natural born story teller. I will give the book a week to settle in and then give it a review on Amazon. I wrote several non-fiction books but then decided to try fiction and I found it was my drug of choice. I hope to ready your next book soon. Lots of love and congratulations.!

The only thing crazier than hallucinating a fictional videogame spaceship would be to blame it on a frosted breakfast pastry.

The Firefly universe was anchored in a sector adjacent to the Star Wars galaxy, with a detailed re-creation of the Star Trek universe in the sector adjacent to that.

Middle Earth. Vulcan. Pern. Arrakis. Magrathea. Discworld, Mid-World, Riverworld, Ringworld. Worlds upon worlds.