Quotes About Fiction

The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

Samo roman na najbolji na?in može da pokaže koliko je stvarnost slaba i nedovoljna da zadovolji ?ovekove apetite, ostvari njegove želje i snove. ~ Mario Vargas Ljosa ~

Ako stvarno misliš da pisci imaju moralne vrednosti koje daju svojim likovima, onda si stvarno naivan. ?ak i pomslo glup.

En prétendant raconter la vie dans vos romans, vous mentez. La vie est trop complexe pour être mise équation ou pour se laisser enfermer dans les pages d'un livre. Elle est plus forte que les maths ou que la fiction. Le roman, c'est de la fiction. Et la fiction, c'est techniquement du mensonge.

It does not always work, but sometimes, for a few hours, fiction is genuinely more powerful than life.

I am Madame Bovary.

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question. Every general belief being little else than a fiction, it can only survive on the condition that it be not subjected to examination.

Sadece romanlardaki insanlar, tüm hayatlar? boyunca de?i?mez karakteristikler sergiler.

Looked at from the vantage points offered by fictional stories, slavery, like the glass viewed from above, at first glance, can appear to be merely trivial, two-dimensional, erotic behavior that is not deserving of any serious attention.

Storylines from fiction always seem inherently improbable to occur in real life, yet when we read them we are happy to suspend our disbelief, which may simply suggest that in our everyday lives we have an irrational craving for certainty and probability.

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home.

Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction." {Guy Gavriel Kay}

la realidad, desde luego, es muy superior a la ficción, aunque no sea sino por su imaginación desbordada.

El más sencillo argumento de la realidad es inalcanzable para el ficcionador más delirante.

I Drink. I Burn. I Dream. And Sometimes, I tell Stories !

If the truth about loving or hateful choices were revealed it would break open the earth's crust. Which is why we live in legalized and general delusion. Fiction takes the place of reality. This is why simply naming one of these turns of the unconscious that are part of our strange human adventure engenders such upsets (which are at once intimate, individual, and political); why consciously or unconsciously we constantly try to save ourselves from this naming.

En una novela es muy cómodo el recurso de hacer morir a los personajes cuando tienen herido el corazón y produce dramático efecto; pero en la vida real eso no sucede, aunque perezca a su alrededor cuanto le hacía querer la vida.

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

And, as a mere matter of ficfect, I tell of myself how I popo possess the ripest littlums wifukie around the globelettes globes (...)

and, as a matter of fict, by my halfwife, (...)

L'amor matris, genitivo, soggettivo e accusativo, è probabilmente l'unica cosa vera della vita. La paternità può essere una finzione legale.

Oh great. Yoda captured us.