Quotes About Fiction

By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

Christopher Moore

Do not bonk the Juliette

Amy called the whale punkin.

so here, in not too many pages, someone is going to dispatch the miserable son of a bitch with a shovel. That's the spirit of Christmas yet to come in these parts. Ho, ho, ho.

the other three trumpeters having recently succumbed to herpes.

And then I see that the old vampyre is charred like Wile E. Coyote after a bad rocket shoes test.

Was that a true story?" "Of course it was a true story!" exclaimed Skarghaz, stomping back to his chair. "We would not tell you a story that said wrong things about the world, Rider." "No, I mean, did it really happen?

Me siento como si viviera en un mundo imaginario, en un sueño en el que todo es posible.

I want to cry. Like a serious mushy cry a middle-school girl might do after her favorite vampire couple has a baby or something.

Would the young men called to arms laugh and joke and exchange hearty platitudes in imitation of popular fiction, while they waited to be mutilated by the stupidity and arrogance of aged politicians?

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.

we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the actual world seems to be a more treacherous place.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

It seems to me that more plots have been imagined than really exist.

It seems that fictional worlds are parasitic on the real world.

False tales are, first of all, tales, and tales, like myths, are always persuasive.

Let us forget for a moment that some of these false tales produced positive effects, while others produced horror and shame. All created something, for better or worse. Nothing in their success is inexplicable. What represents a problem is rather the way they managed to replace other tales that today we consider true.

Es posible que la realidad no sólo sobrepase a la ficción, sino que la preceda, o más bien se apresura con adelanto, a reparar los daños que la ficción reparará?

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Admittedly, they [(places in novels)] didn't all have such ridiculous names as the ones in the Piddle Valley where her father's group of parishes was centered. It would have been hard to make credible a romantic fiction set in Farleigh Piddle, Middle Piddle, Nether Piddle and Piddle Dummer.

The most amazing part of this science-fiction moment was that her mother actually believed what she just said.

No hero would ever do this. But books were only a reflection of real life, not the thing itself.