Quotes About Fiction

La manera más eficaz de "reescribir" una vida es mezclar con descaro verdades con grandes mentiras

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

This book is an invention, an act of the imagination, and in no way should be mistaken for reality, the place where much good invention originates.

In life, loss was the engine that set Wilder's fiction in motion. Exile propelled the powerful emotional current of the Little House books, an intensely felt nostalgia for people and places lost to her. That emotion was absent in "Free Land," relegating it to homesteading soap opera. Its loosely linked anecdotes were joined not by familial love but by Lane's, and the Post 's, ideology.

Wilder's "truth" was less a matter of fact than of her memories, feelings, and convictions. Her work was based on facts but not factual. It was historical fiction, not history. Its chronology, and certain incidents and characters, were invented, altered, and fictionalized.

In the peculiar alchemy of literature, the daughter was adept at creating in fiction what she had not known in her own childhood.

This is why people like writing. You visit old friends without having to go on Facebook and see what they're up to and deal with what idiots called FOMO. You make them into what you want them to be, the people they could be if only they were braver, smarter.

This is why people like writing. You visit old friends without having to go on Facebook and see what they're up to and deal with what idiots call FOMO. You make them into what you want them to be, the people they could be if only they were braver, smarter.

J-"Don't tell me you don't feel a true connection to the characters in your favorite books". A-"That is true, Pen. Just because they aren't real people doesn't make characters less...real".

I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

As we all know, there is no underwear in space.

But imagine this though. Imagine having a mood system that functions essentially like weather - independently of whatever's going on in your life. So the facts of your life remain the same, just the emotional fiction that you're responding to differs. It's like I'm not properly insulated - so all the bad and the good ways that you and most of the people in adjacent neighborhoods and around the world feel - that pours directly into my system unchecked. It's so fun.

So, Cormac, have you ever dealt with a PMSing werewolf?' No.' Well, it's a real bitch...

Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are." "What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?" "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.

the world—have been sucked up into the phantasmagorical pages of a novel by Neal Stephenson, the shy West Coast

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange, Stranger than Fiction

Who says that fictions only and false hairBecome a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.