Quotes About Fiction

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

I think they should make Twilight closets and all the cast members can walk out of them.

I finally figured out why Voldemort's face is so flat. He ran into the wrong wall at the train station.

I check every can of Barbasol I buy for dinosaur embryos. I haven't found any yet, as evidenced by the lack of T-Rex screams in my apartment.

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

Be careful what you tell me. You could end up in my next novel.

Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

A liar with a pen is a writer

Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

It's just a figment of the imagination.

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination