Quotes About Fiction

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

The tangible and intangible collide to cast a spell. But can a person or thing ever be stripped naked? Can we ever discover reality hiding under the meanings we give to people and things? I don't think so. And I don't think Fitzgerald thought so either. His book meditates on the necessity of fiction, not only as lies but as truths.

fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.

The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.

I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading novels. This is the working out of the problem of illusion. I take a book off the shelf. I open it up and begin to read, and what I discover in its pages is real.

Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear. Fiction is made from the stuff of the world, after all, which includes dreams and wishes and fantasies and memory. And it is never really made alone, but from the material between and among us: language.

En mayor o menor medida, todos inventamos nuestro pasado.

A powerfully imagined event can evoke the same emotions as a real event. Few artists would contradict this, and yet there no doubt people who would find it odd that a fiction, when fully imagined, can create something parallel to the disruptions in madness, but what Freud called "sublimation" is the transformation of inner dramas, fears, and wounds into something else: a work of art outside the body of the artist.

The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through books, fictions that are no less part of me than much of my own history.

but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that fiction, we make it partly real.

all of us need a story outside ourselves, a form through which we imagine ourselves as players in the game.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

People love to yammer on about things that aren't real.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

I loved doing Supergirl, but I would love to do Batgirl. I would absolutely love to do a live-action Batgirl!

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

I just love historical fiction.