Quotes About Fiction

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

She blinked once, then twice, and yet again, sure what she viewed was just another part of this fantasy world that she had stepped into when her feet touched the green grass of Ireland.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

I cannot stand superheroes. I do not understand any of its appeal. It has just bored me to death since I was a little kid.

Sharpening the writer's sense of reality. Feeding that great opportunistic maw, a novelist's mind.

A ficção como sempre, ocupa um lugar secundário face à História; as mulheres reais são sempre mais complexas e mais contraditórias do que as heroínas de um romance, tal como as mulheres reais dos nossos tempos, como as de então, são muitas vezes maiores do que o retrato que delas se faz, por vezes maiores do que o mundo quer que sejam.

Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author's imagination.

A ficção pega numa história, ou num aspecto do todo, e pode narrar acontecimentos trágicos, potentes, individuais; mas é o todo que deveria ser contado: e o todo é inconcebível.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

The fiction, as always, is secondary to the history; the real women are always more complex and more conflicted, greater than the heroines of the novel, just as real women now, as then, are often greater than they are reported, sometimes greater than the world wants them to be.

Carlos: So, what, were they psychos, or... Seth: Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are!

Yes, that's the laptop I use to write all the Goosebumps books. I know it looks strange. That's because someone's lap is still attached. Don't touch it. I think it's contagious.

I had a good teacher. Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass. I mean you, dummy.

You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.

He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, "I vant to drink your blood" in a heavy, fake Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed, and a zombie ate her brains on-screen.!

You never heard ofplugging her in ? My God, Myrnin, you made a vampire computer?

Bite me, Dracula.

Myrnin was heading for Kim when she picked up a crossbow lying on a table nearby and shot him pointblank in the chest. He staggered backward, muttered, Not again

What you know about Vampires could fit into a mosquito's ass. Eve said. Irritated. All you know is what you grew up seeing on T.V. You ever actually meet one?