Quotes About Fiction

Às vezes, as coisas mais reais só acontecem na imaginação. A gente só lembra do que nunca aconteceu.

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

Sometimes, the things that are the most real only happen in one's imagination, Oscar, she said. We only remember what never really happened.

Never before had I felt trapped, so seduced and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that book. Until then, reading was just a duty, a sort of fine one had to pay teachers and tutors without quite knowing why. I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

Não conhecia o prazer de ler, de explorar portas que se nos abrem na alma, de nos abandonarmos à imaginação, à beleza e ao mistério da ficção e da linguagem.

Hasta entonces para mí las lecturas eran una obligación, una especie de multa a pagar a maestros y tutores sin saber muy bien para qué. No conocía el placer de leer, de explorar puertas que se te abren en el alma, de abandonarse a la imaginación, a la belleza y al misterio de la ficción y del lenguaje.

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction.

a man who invented his life story day after day.

Dicen que casi todos los abogados desean secretamente dejar el ejercicio y convertirse en escritores. —… hasta que comparan el sueldo.

I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?

A veces, las cosas más reales sólo suceden en la imaginación, Óscar -dijo ella-. Sólo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió

Sólo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió

En mi mundo, las grandes esperanzas sólo vivían entre las páginas de un libro.

Minden csak mese. Amiben hiszünk, amit ismerünk, amire emlékszünk, sÅ't amirÅ'l álmodunk, az is. Minden csak mese, történet, amelyben események és szereplÅ'k vonulnak fel, és érzelmi tartalmakat közölnek egymással.

Ha una brutta faccia» sentenziò. «Indigestione» replicai. «Di cosa?» «Di realtà»

Sestra mi kaže da ste pisac iako vidim ovdje da ste ispunjavaju?i formular napisali da ste najamni radnik. - U mom slu?aju nema nikakve razlike. - Mislim da je jedan od mojih pacijenata vaš ?itatelj. - Nadam se da neurološko ošte?enje koje je nastalo ne?e biti trajno.

Se não confiar num escritor de romances, vai confiar em quem?

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. As I said, pure biology.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink," said the cardinal, as he spread poison on the knife edge by the light of a candelabra.

No conocía el placer de leer, de explorar puertas que se te abren en el alma, de abandonarse a la imaginación, a la belleza y al misterio de la ficción y del lenguaje.

We only remember what never happened.

el placer de leer, de explorar puertas que se te abren en el alma, de abandoranse a la imaginación, a la belleza y al misterio de la ficción y del lenguaje.

Between 1928 and 1936, he published eight of Carax's novels.