Quotes About Fiction

Myrnin, she said. He didn't show up at the rendezvous. And? Dude's crazy, in case you didn't notice recently. He probally went of the chase butterflys or something

You staked a vampire with a number two pencil. I didn't actually check the number. - Shane Collins and Claire Danvers from Morganville Vampires

I half expected to find Sherlock Holmes thumb wrestling with Jane Austen in the corner.

bu öyküyü anlatmak istiyordum ama ne bizim dünyam?zda ne de düÅŸsel hayvanlar?n dünyas?nda, içinde bulunduÄŸu yaln?zl?k tehlikesinden kurtulmak için kendi kendine yalan söyleyen bir canl? bulabildim. Bunu yaln?zca insan yapabiliyordu.

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept

When Mary Shelley took a local legend based on truth and crafted fiction from it, she'd made Victor a tragic figure and killed him off. He understood her dramatic purpose for giving him a death scene, but he loathed her for portraying him as tragic and a failure. Her judgement of his work was arrogant. What else of consequence did she ever write? And of the two, who was dead - and who was not?

We are fictioneers.

Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?

When Mary Shelley took a local legend based on truth and crafted fiction from it, she'd made Victor a tragic figure and killed him off. He understood her dramatic purpose for giving him a death scene, but he loathed her for portraying him as tragic and as a failure.

The way Winny saw it, the best thing and the worst thing were the same thing: nothing lasted ... what to say and felt you didn't belong anywhere, books were a way to lead another life, a way to be someone else entirely, to be anyone at all.

In certain fiction, she perceives truths that she rarely finds in nonfiction; therefore, in her quest to better understand the world and the meaning of her life, she reads those novels that suggest a world of wonders, dark and light, forever unfolding for eyes willing to see.

say, "Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood. But what do I know of real people or the world, considering my strange existence?

I'm serious,' he said, though aware of how odd it was that he should choose to inform his wife of a personal crisis by comparing it to the experiences of a mystery novel heroine whom he had created. Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it sometimes was for a writer? And if so... was there a book in that idea?

I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood.

He said, "Sometimes it takes a lot of distance to be able to fold a piece of your life into a work of fiction.

With the thirst of an insatiable swillpot, he had poured down the fiction of two generations of deep thinkers, and he was pickled in their

soon the girls had Barty enthusiastically involved in a make-believe world far different from the one in which Heinlein's teenage lead owned an extraordinary alien pet with eight legs, the temperament of a kitten, and an appetite for everything from grizzly bears to Buicks.

She told him that she wished he would come to life for her, the way that he had come to life in the wonderful story, and she really did wish it, want it, need it. She could so clearly see him rising from the page of the book as he had risen from the baker's tray before setting out into the city. When the incident began, it was pure Disney. But not for long.

They were stories of things that had never happened and could never happen, but she told them with such quiet verve and conviction that we believed them and wanted to continue believing even after time robbed us of our sense of wonder.

I've read more truth in fiction than in nonfiction, partly because fiction can deal with the numinous, and nonfiction rarely does.

The writer that you are, I guess you're used to being a kind of dictator, telling the characters in your stories what to do.

To create good fiction, you have to like people enough to want to write about the human condition—but close yourself alone in a room for a large part of your life to get the job done right.

because real life was plotted like Tolkien on methamphetamine

Yeah. Because tonight I was that drawing. I always thought I knew exactly who I was. Then a simple shift of perspective, and I see a different me. Which one is real and which is fiction?