Quotes About Fiction

1984 is a great fiction novel to read but it seems like it is becoming the reality we are currently living under more and more each day.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Trump was neither Jewish nor Swedish; Fred Trump, a first-generation American born to German parents, had developed the habit of telling people the family was Swedish because they had so many Jewish tenants and, after World War II, he did not want to repel them. Donald perpetuated the fiction for many years.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Que me da lástima porque me encariñé con los personajes. Y ahora se terminó, y es como si estuvieran muertos.

Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.

At night, Paul became part of an imaginary world where he felt happy, in the company of characters who had become his friends. When he was writing, anything was possible.

Is it the freedom of characters in fiction that we find so inspiring, or the way that freedom transforms them?

But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.

By George, I had forty-seven pregnant women with horns trying to take a razoo at me.

And there's already a cop writer in the Cities." "Mostly that one guy," Lucas said. "Whatshisname. But his cop never does any paperwork. Or uses the can.

Other science fiction shows had science advisers and consultants, Hanson pointed out. It's science fiction, Weinstein said. The second part of that phrase matters too. But you're making it bad science fiction, Hester said. And we have to live in it.

Because every time I think of starships skipping across the galaxy, I imagine Albert Einstein in a policeman's uniform, writing up a ticket.

I could not personally care less about whether JT Leroy turns out to be fictional or not. I find fictional people writing fiction no more or less objectionable than real people writing fiction, because it's fiction

I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate. That's something I can work on. It's what I'm working on now.

Then Dahl remembered that until that very second, absolutely none of that was true.

No, no, I'm just fucking with you. They all lived happily ever after. Seriously.

Kiva considered that she might be developing a thing for Fundapellonan, which on one hand would be a very not-Kiva thing to do, but on the other hand who gave a fuck if it was "not-Kiva," because she wasn't some fucking fictional character destined to do whatever some goddamn hack wanted her to do.

Estaba pensando. En eso de ser ficticio y tal.

I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.