Quotes About Fiction

Now what I like about lit is that though you feel you know the characters involved, you don't – you get all the benefits of having a relationship, with none of the mess.

Real life makes for good novels because it's lived as a bunch of lies, and because fictions of one kind or another are the only things worth living for.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

If you want to tell the truth, write fiction

I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you come to new places and live new lives.

This is a work of history in fictional form—that is, in personal perspective, which is the only kind of history that exists.

La literatura es mentir bien la verdad

No mentiría; pero la mejor verdad está en lo que cuento...

At the end of my second year I understood something I'd been incubating for several months: that my law studies were of no interest or use to me whatsoever, for my only obsession was reading fiction and, finally, learning how to write it.

Sea como sea, con la llegada de Sancho Panza sucede algo cardinal: el diálogo se convierte en la principal forma de exploración de la realidad; el resto de Cervantes siempre tendrá más de un punto de vista sobre el mundo que es su material y su objetivo

Quijote es también un documento (encontrado por Cervantes en

Joyce llevó a la prosa de ficción la precisión y la riqueza de recursos retóricos de la poesía. Supo, como había sabido Flaubert, que la poesía es lo que rescata y eleva el lenguaje de la novela.

Por el modo de vestirse, cada uno hace de su cuerpo una ficción.

To belittle romance fiction is to belittle women. To read romance fiction is to confront the strength of women, the variety of their experience, and the validity of their aspirations and achievements.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

The work of art that insures the rebirth of its author and its reader or viewer is one that succeeds in integrating the artificial language it puts forward (ne style, new composition, surprising imagination) and the unnamed agitations [Émois] of an omnipotent self that ordinary social and linguistic usage always leave somewhat orphaned or plunged into mourning. Hence such a fiction, if it isn't an antidepressant, is at least, a survival, a resurrection.

romantic fiction. She

esta hermosa ciudad. Abgaro estaba impaciente.

How I Would Like to Kill My Brother, Version Sixteen By Olivia Bevelstoke No. really, what was the point? She could hardly top Version Fifteen, which had featured both vivisection and wild boar.

I hope that bite becomes infected," Poppy said in a malevolent growl. "I hope your arm turns black and falls off. I hope your bollocks turn gree—" "Poppy!" Andrew barked.

I am trapped in a bad novel," Iris announced, to no one in particular.

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.