Quotes About Fiction

Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.

The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who mock fiction do so because they fear the truth.

Was that Will?" she said finally. Henry arched one ginger eyebrow. "Perhaps he's been kidnapped and replaced by an automaton," he suggested. "It seems possible..." For once Charlotte could only find herself in agreement.

I'll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I've experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.

I can see why you like it here," he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science fiction books. "There's a thin layer of nerd all over everything." said Jace. "Thanks. I appreciate that." Simon gave Jace a hard look.

All the stories are true

However, there is something you should have. Something every Shadowhunter should have." "An obnoxious, arrogant attitude?" Simon said.

Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Demon pox,' said Will with the satisfaction of the truly vindicated.

We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.

The best lies are based on the truth, at least in part

Kyle is a werewolf?"asked Simon "Of course he's a werewolf,you moron"said Jace

So, technically," Simon said, "even though Jace isn't actually related to you, you have kissed your brother.

Every time a writer creates a character with a particularly troubled background (or a kinky sexual bent) it seems that somebody in the "real world" assumes that the writer is working from personal experience.

psychology is like archaeology. As you dig down to uncover each layer and carefully dust off the artifacts that emerge, you eventually find a whole buried world that seems stranger than fiction.

IN MANY WAYS, psychology is like archaeology. As you dig down to uncover each layer and carefully dust off the artifacts that emerge, you eventually find a whole buried world that seems stranger than fiction.

Las personas reales solo proporcionan modelos al novelista porque su imaginario ya ha creado los moldes en los que los introducirá.

Here's what I learned from Lenny in my sophomore year of high school: the down-and-out character is just as human as everybody else. You may not want to know him in real life, but in fiction, you just might dare. And in knowing him, you get a lesson in humanity: we're more the same than we might imagine. And that even the class outcast has talents. Someone just needs to tell her what they are.

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Someone ought to write a novel about me," said Lebedeva loftily. "I shouldn't care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can't abide a poor liar.

Don't you ever feel like you're just a story someone is telling about someone like you?

How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.

But when it finally did happen, the alien invasion turned out to be much more like Mr. Looney of the Tunes than Mr. Ridley of the Scott. Point to Nani.

Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.