Quotes About Fiction

I love 'True Blood.' I love 'The Walking Dead.' Those are fantastic series.

I do just love the characters in sci-fi, but not necessarily the fact that it's sci-fi.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.

I love a story that balances pace with detail.

The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be.

Thank you," I said and then abruptly leaned across the counter and with two forked fingers poked him sharply in the eyes. Actually, I didn't do that. I just imagined it. But imagining it made me feel better. I

Margaret Atwood, J.G. Ballard, Ray Bradbury, Jim Crace, Arthur C. Clarke, Russell Hoban, Anna Kavan, Doris Lessing, Cormac McCarthy, Walter M. Miller, Tim O'Brien, Will Self and Marcel Theroux

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.

He was just making it up.

Todos nosotros llevamos nuestra humilde vida y además llevamos otra vida, imaginaria.

En todas las ficciones, cada vez que un hombre se enfrenta con diversas alternativas, opta por una y elimina las otras; en la del casi inextricable Ts'ui Pên, opta simultáneamente por todas. Crea, así, diversos porvenires, diversos tiempos, que también proliferan y se bifurcan.

La historia es enteramente verdadera, ya que me la he inventado yo de cabo a rabo.

L'histoire est entièrement vraie puisque je l'ai imaginée d'un bout à l'autre.

But nothing, I find, has prepared me for the sight of my own characters walking about. A playwright or screenwriter must expect it; a novelist doesn't and naturally concludes that she has gone mad. (What do they need so many umbrellas for? Don't they realise that they are imaginary?)

Timey-Wimey: Steven Moffat, Blink and J. W. Dunne's theories of Time'

The self," Blackmore writes, "is just a fleeting impression that arises with each experience and fades away again. . . . There is no inner self," she argues, "only multiple parallel processes that give rise to a benign inner delusion—a useful fiction." She argues that consciousness itself is a fiction. The

Each day demands we create our whole world over, disguising the constant horror in a coat of many-colored fictions; we mask out past in the green of Eden, pretend future's shining fruit can sprout from the navel of this present waste.

And another: perhaps a version of the waitress story: only I haven't got it here. Make it up. Naturalistic. Jewel prose. Make out little paragraphs of what happens to whom. Then think it clear. Write it.

Tu mente es la mayor guionista de «culebrones» de la historia: se inventa relatos increíbles, generalmente basadas en dramas y desastres, de situaciones que jamás han ocurrido y probablemente nunca ocurrirán. Mark Twain lo dijo de la mejor forma: «He tenido miles de problemas en mi vida, la mayoría de los cuales nunca sucedieron en realidad».

It [The Great Gatsby] has interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen, either English or American, for a number of years....it seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James.