Quotes About Fiction

This is a work of fiction. If certain characters resemble people in real life, it is because certain people in real life resemble characters from a novel. Nobody, therefore, is entitled to feel included in this book. Nobody, by the same token, to feel excluded.

La desesperanza y la soledad no se comparten en la literatura con una multitud de otros seres, porque no existe, no existirá, el personaje masivo

About how much is autobiographical in my fiction, I could say nothing and everything.

In order for the reader to believe the lies I'll tell, first I need to build a normal, everyday, believable environment ... Say, a scenario or, rather, a set design. And then, gradually, we could say surreptitiously, I introduce later the fact or facts that could never happen in real life.

The main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

I have settled, in short, from reading my own writings, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.

The fiction which resembles truth," said the Persian poet Nizâmi in the year 1250, "is better than the truth which is dissevered from the imagination";

Natürlich ist in diesem Buch alles erstunken und erlogen.

Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Les contes de fées n'existent que dans les contes de fées. La vérité est plus décevante. La vérité est toujours décevante, c'est pourquoi tout le monde ment.

Stories were ruthless creatures and sometimes fattened themselves on bloody happenings.

you only had to provide part of a lie. You could rely on other people's imaginations to fill the gaps.

Nunca dejes que la realidad te estropee una buena historia.

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.

Fictional characters come trailing many cognitive puzzles.

You can't make these things up.

Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

Cette histoire est vraie puisque je l'ai inventée.

To my mind, it's one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some satisfactory answer to the question, What is this like? Or, What does this remind me of? A comparison is laboriously but successfully introduced. You meet your metaphor, and it's good.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

weekend at bernie's is not a realistic movie

Es un error pensar que la ciencia ficción es un campo literario salvaje que se aparta de los caminos conocidos; puede ser un ingrediente más de cualquier tipo de ficción, del mismo modo que la ciencia y las tecnologías actuales forman parte integrante de nuestras vidas en todos sus aspectos.

When I leave here, will this shop vanish the way they do in the stories?" "I'm afraid so, yes." "Why do they always do that?" The old man sighed. "You know, you're the first one who ever asked me that." But

Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.