Quotes About Fiction

She...wanted no one—apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.

And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

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!

As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

Oh, come on," Clary said. "You're a vampire, not Spider-Man.

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

I'm not really a Spider-Man fan. I'm more of a Batman guy.

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man's dream!

I vill destroy de snickers bar!" Gazzy(The Gas Man)

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.