Quotes About Fiction

I just met a wonderful new man, he is fictional but you can't have everything

Duelo de ingenio con el inspector Ford El secuestro extravagante Os quiere, Kermit. P.S. Esto no es una broma. Adjunto una broma para que podáis apreciar la diferencia

So what character in fiction do you most identify with?" she pressed him. Finally, he said, "Gregor Samsa." "My god, you kill me." She laughed.

más que indefinible, el amor es, como la vida y la ficción, estúpido.

el amor es, como la vida y la ficción, estúpido.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals of the story without animals?

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality?

Most of us have small, sad places somewhere in our hearts and my father was no exception. Sometimes we let our feelings escape in bursts of anger. Sometimes we make long, dismal faces. My father did neither. He felt deeply but he kept his feelings to himself. Or rather, being a writer, he let them escape in his writing. But even here he disguised them, unable even in fiction to allow himself to take himself too seriously.

Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place.

The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

There was a duplication of myself involved, perhaps even a triplication. There was I who was writing. There was I whom I could remember. And there was I of whom I wrote, the protagonist of the story.

As is so often the case, shapings of history designed to bring out lost sources of vitality call upon fictions of ethnicity or race as their medium.

Attacking the ostensible paradox of altering previously recorded historical events, Robert Heinlein's short story All You Zombies remains the ultimate, absurdly extreme, example for most devotees of this genre.1 Traversing the

It's hard to know what has become folklore and what is reality. But don't all myths stem from some semblance of fact?

Fiction can accommodate ambivalence as polemic cannot

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle.

Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

The fiction will seek the real.