Quotes About Fiction

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.

When most dullards hear the words 'the theater,' they envision a twelve-screen multiplex where disaster porn entertains the culturally witless for 90 minutes at a time. Pfaugh. The word 'theater' has grandeur. Power. Back to its ancient Grecian origins, it means 'the seeing place.' A stage upon which actors and actresses use fiction to show us truths.

I'm a master of story. Almost a living fiction myself, so resilient am I! Spider-Man beats me down, I rise! Daredevil imprisons me, I escape! That's because stories have power! He who controls the narrative controls the audience, and you're all the audience, every one of you. As they say, the world's a stage...

That's what happens when your personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device.

Stop talking about truth - I fed you truth all along, but as I said before, what you want is story.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

The self is seen as a psychological fiction, which means that its relationships are essentially fiction.

todo es tan garciamarqueciano que sospecho que él no existió...

ART (aka Asshole Research Transport)

Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.

Granted, I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can't have one without the other.

I don't like planets. There's dust and weather, and something always wants to eat the humans.

No, I impersonated my client. My imaginary client. That I impersonated." I was caught in a loop for a second there.

Look, if there were space monsters, they probably wouldn't need a pressurized environment, right?

It looked very unrealistic and inaccurate, which was exactly what I liked.

Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. In the dramas, not Mensah's family.

Che avrei dovuto fare? Ammazzare tutti gli umani perché quelli che erano a capo della sezione costrutti della compa- gnia erano dei senza cuore? Certo, le persone immaginarie del canale d'intrattenimento mi piacevano molto di più di quelle reali, ma non si poteva avere le une senza le altre.

Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do -- like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy.