Quotes About Fiction

When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the compromises people come to town and are forced to make, and also, when writing about Joe McCarthy, the indecency and lies that he put forward that people didn't take a stand about.

I love Bane. I love the Joker. I love Batman.

I wouldn't call the Joker exactly easy to write.

It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.

We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

She was secure in the armour of her anonymity. Even if he did kiss her again, as he probably would, the person whom he kissed would be an imaginary person, a creature whom she had invented for her own amusement, not herself.

Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its existence to be immortalized by a writing self that is incapable of performing its actions without mixing our essence with what is false.

This one has Olive Oyl getting it doggy-style from Popeye.

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

Fear begets fiction and fiction gives a shape to fear

A good story is sometimes preferable to an accurate one.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else.

Sorrow is a sanctuary as long as self is kept outside. [...] let us not foster, embrace, rekindle and indulge our grief. For then our sorrow is a selfish and luxurious fiction, a ground in which the Holy Spirit will not dig.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia . Utopia is always somewhere else. That's the very definition of Utopia.

planet, which happened to be a simulacrum of the planet.

I bring you a message from a friend of ours," she said quietly. "He wanted you to know that he's not dead. He can't be killed." "He is hope." The she raised the spear and rammed it directly into the Lord Ruler's heart.

People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether people in them actually lived?