Quotes About Fiction

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

Well just meeting J. K. Rowling was amazing because she created all this world. And all the fans, we all get so obsessed with it and then you met the one person who made it all up. It was just so amazing. And I was just so amazed that that she wrote this book and all of the films have happened.

I've read the 'Mortal Instruments' series; I was obsessed with those.

The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

I will now make an apology, although I will do my best not to repeat it. (Good readers do not read fiction, after all, to put up with the author's regrets.) I will say that having read the best and worst of novels for many years, which is, to remind you, part of a good devil's education, I know by now that not even a loyal reader can stay true to an author who is ready to leave his narrative for an apparently unrelated expedition.

I will now make an apology, although I will do my best not to repeat it. (Good readers do not read fiction, after all, to put up with the author's regrets.)

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

Mas enquanto vivemos não podemos escapar das máscaras nem dos nomes e pronomes: somos inseparáveis das nossas ficções- das nossas facções. Estamos condenados a inventar uma máscara e a descobrir, depois, que essa máscara é nosso verdadeiro rosto.

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.

The past is always an invented land.

But no one believes in that way what he reads in a novel...Oh yes they do. If only to see themselves as wise and superior and humanistic, they need to think of us as sweet and funny, and convince themselves that they sympathize with the way we are and even love us.

Because Anna Karenina could not read the novel she held in her hands, we read Anna Karenina the novel.

no cambiaría nada saber que la escritura, que cualquier texto, no trata de la vida sino del sueño, por el mero hecho de ser escritura.

The art of the novel is based on the craft of telling our own stories as if they belonged to others, and of telling other people's stories as if they were our own.

El verdadero placer de leer una novela empieza con la capacidad de ver el mundo no desde el exterior, sino a través de los ojos de los protagonistas que viven en ese mundo.