Quotes About Fiction

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

A story has value whether it's true or not.

All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling.

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

Christian Fiction is like a parable. The story is made up, but the truth is brought to life. Enjoy the story, but savor the truth.

We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.

To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.

Reality is always different than words or a story sometimes it's better, many time not truthful.

Prose lies its way to the truth

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

Truth is stranger than fiction fiction has to make sense.

The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

History will always repeat itself, because it makes for good reading. It doesn't have to be truthful or factual, just entertaining with the odd fact thrown in for good measure.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Goodreads.com is actually about fiction not dreading goo. But I have a profile there, anyway...

why let the truth get in the way of a good story?

Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.

Maybe the midnight disease was like that, too. After a while you lost the ability to distinguish between your fictional and actual words; you confused yourself with your characters, and the random happenings of your life with the machinations of a plot.

Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It was a fiction produced by someone who knew only fictions, The Tempest as written by isolate Miranda, raised on the romances in her father's library.

The past was irretrievable, the league of lonely men a fiction, the pursuit of the past a doomed attempt to run a hustle on mortality.

Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about science fiction. The Killer Hook.

Sometimes even lovers of fiction can be satisfied only by the truth. I

the writing of fiction is akin to the work of a stage magician, a feat of sustained deception in which by imagery and language the trickster leads the audience to believe in the existence or possibility of a series of nonexistent or impossible things.