Quotes About Fiction

The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world.

When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also

Great fiction is the art of a soul.

Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.

In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.

Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen

I enjoy writing historical fiction because it allows me to live more lives than just this one.

I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive.

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.