Quotes About Fiction

After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed that I was due a love story.

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

Fablehaven's awesome!!so is the candy shop war!

Seth wished he had kept the zombie hand.

Siempre estaba dispuesta a retirarse al mundo imaginario que creaban los buenos autores.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

This is my reality. Everything outside of this is like some movie I once saw.

If realistic fiction is primarily metonymic, fantasy is inescapably metaphoric; because the presence of the impossible blocks a literal reading, we are invited to look at Fred and his world as some sort of iconic stand-in for everyday life, rather than as an extension from it. By

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on my adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

Not strictly one of mine, but worth repeating! A very forceful old lady in these parts, when referring to the eight novels of the Angel Mountain Saga,was heard to say: You know them books by that fellow Brian John? If I was you I wouldn't believe a single word. Take it from me. It's lies -- all lies!

Why, because you think made-up stories have never resulted in actual casualties? Putting new ideas into another person's head is an aggressive act, aggressive acts have consequences. Face it, you can be a writer or a pacifist, but you can't be both.

Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.

It's a rusty old saw that the writers and artists who create the darkest work are usually the nicest human beings, presumably because they get to purge into their fiction allof the awful crap that makes the rest of us such miserable bastards.

She's his kid sister, but... I guess it's like she got sucked into this alternate dimension when she was little? And this demon guy taught her all this black magic and, like, twisted her soul.

It's called 'You Just Don't Exist.' I'm co-starring with Winifred Hailey. It's like, a romantic comedy.

The imagination is always the best torturer.

Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.

The Somnium makes clear to us, although it did not to all of Kepler's contemporaries, that "in a dream one must be allowed the liberty of imagining occasionally that which never existed in the world of sense perception." Science fiction was a new idea at the time of the Thirty Years' War, and Kepler's book was used as evidence that his mother was a witch.

When enough fiction is written and enough scientific hypotheses are proposed, sooner or later there will be accidental concordances.

In a novel of ideas, the ideas have to work.

You know, then, that the public Somebody you are when you "have a name" is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath and which is the sum of your actions and so is constantly in a state of becoming under your own volition — and knowing these things, you can even survive the catastrophe of Success!

Abby_Donovan: Heathcliff was a misogynistic asshole. MarkBaynard: Could you explain that to my Lit 101 class? I hate to see all those impressionable young females swoowing over him like he's Edward Cullen. Abby_Donovan: I've always been Team Jacob myself. And Team Mr Rochester.