Quotes About Fiction

D]as Gedächtnis [ist] schwach und der Lauf eines Lebens kurz und alles [geschieht] so rasch, dass wir den Zusammenhang zwischen den Ereignissen nicht mehr sehen, die Folgen der Taten nicht mehr ermessen können, wir glauben an die Fiktion der Zeit, an Gegenwart, Vergangenheit und Zukunft, aber es kann auch sein, dass alles gleichzeitig geschieht [...]

Cuando escribo cuento la vida como me gustaría que fuera, como una novela.

En este relato, escrito muchos años después de los hechos, deseo ser lo más fiel a la verdad posible, pero la memoria es siempre caprichosa, fruto de lo vivido, lo deseado y la fantasía. La línea que divide la realidad de la imaginación es muy tenue, y a mi edad ya no interesa porque todo es subjetivo. La memoria también está teñida por la vanidad.

El problema con la ficción es que debe ser creíble, en cambio la realidad rara vez lo es.

I also grew up with the family anecdotes told to me by my grandparents, my uncles, and my mother—very handy when it comes to writing novels. How many of them are true? Doesn't matter. At the hour of remembering, no one wants verification of facts, the legend is enough

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

I don't think anyone wants to cuddle a zombie.

The bottom line is I'm a slow zombie guy - I'm always a slow zombie guy but I also know I'm in the minority.

When you watch zombie movies, and people say, 'What's going on? What are we going to do?' it's like they live in a world where they've never seen zombie movies.

In a zombie apocalypse movie, nobody's ever seen a zombie movie. Or in an alien invasion movie, nobody has ever seen an alien invasion movie, like 'Independence Day.'

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

I've never had a zombie eat a brain! I don't know where that comes from. Who says zombies eat brains?

There is no story that can't be improved by adding zombies.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.

Zombies cannot run.

Man, I don't read books! I just read a bunch of 'Walking Dead' comics. I don't even read comics, but zombies are something I just can't get enough of.

I like zombies; I like them fine. But I don't have a long list of zombie movies or books that are among my favorite things in the world.

Zombies are kind of a perennial.

It's not easy for me as a writer to suspend my disbelief in a fantastical zone. I can do it. But it's more natural for me to write stories that are comic. Or hopefully comic.

'Zone One' has one kind of an apocalypse, and 'The Underground Railroad' another. In both cases, the narrators are animated by a hope in a better place of refuge - in the last surviving human outpost, Up North. Does it exist? They can only believe.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.