Quotes About Fiction

Jim Harrison's novels, John McPhee's nonfiction, Flannery O'Connor's short stories, and the crime novels of John Sandford, Ken Bruen, and T. Jefferson Parker. His books

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Jim Harrison's novels, John McPhee's nonfiction, Flannery O'Connor's short stories, and the crime novels of John Sandford, Ken Bruen, and T. Jefferson Parker.

All novels are impossible. We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale would be if it were completely founded in reality. I declare implausibility a must if the reader is not to be bored to tears.

Qué es la vida? Un frenesí. ¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión, una sombra, una ficción; y el mayor bien es pequeño; que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son.

A poet's fiction should at least be plausible.

A la gente que nos gusta leer, el mundo real nos da lo mismo.

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

En los libros y las películas, las historias siempre terminan cuando las dos personas finalmente tienen su romántico beso. La parte del vivieron-felices-para- siempre solo se supone.

Every fiction has its base in fact,

Every fiction has its base in fact," he tells her.

You can't lost what you never had.

My book boyfriend is better than your book boyfriend!

I've invented entire royal bloodlines—and, on a couple of occasions, entire countries—just to get into decent parties

I became a reader - thank God I became a reader. I lived in a dream world because it was a hell of a lot better world.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

We have to report this." Kai sighed deeply in relief. "I was afraid you were going to say that we had to investigate it ourselves." "Don't be ridiculous," Irene said briskly. "We may collect fiction, but we are not required to imitate the stupider parts of it.

It is my theory that the greater truths underlying life and death can be best be understood as a parable--that is, as a fiction.

She occasionally daydreamed about being the sort of character in a story who could faint and leave everyone else to sort things out. But that wasn't going to happen.

Si trattava di trovare delle opere uniche di narrativa e salvarle, portandole in un luogo fuori dal tempo e dallo spazio.

She'd always wondered, or even daydreamed, what it was like to actually work with great detectives, rather than just read about them. It was more annoying than she expected.

Living outside the Library was never safe. Flying sleighs could come out of nowhere and hit you, however careful you were.

Stories matter – telling them, sharing them, preserving them, changing them, learning from them, and escaping with and through them. We learn about ourselves and the world that we live in through fiction just as much as through facts. Empathy, perception and understanding are never wasted. All libraries are a gateway into other worlds, including the past – and the future.

People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories...