Quotes About Fiction

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

Impossible. An old elf swearword.

Be curious. Question everything. A present fact is just a future fiction.

Fiction felt not like an escape from truth, but a release into it.

Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived.

Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices .

Books might be one way to recover some space. Stories. Fiction. When I was eleven, friendless, struggling to fit in at school, I read The outsiders and Rumble Fish and Tex by S.E. Hinton, and I suddenly had friends again. Her books were friends.. And the stories they inhabited could be places I could hide inside. And feel safe. In a world that can get too much, a world where we are running out of mind space, fictional worlds are essential. They can be an escape from reality.

Lacking real compassion and charity for others, he would take pleasure in weeping and rejoicing with the fictional characters on the stage. His love was not real.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

The books do pretend, Mr. Branagan. Surely. But that is not all. Novels are filled with lies, but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

Murakami played with the formulas of mass literature—what is elsewhere termed formulaic fiction—but at the last minute subverted the expectations of those formulas and left the reader wondering what had just happened. This to some degree accounted for the peculiar sense of simultaneous thrill and discouragement one often felt at the end of some of these texts.

If mystery, the genre, is about finding the answers, then mystery, that elusive yet essential element of fiction, is about finding the questions.

The demand for likability is dangerous. It's a conversation stopper, and we need conversations, in so-called real life and in fiction.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

Fiction is largely the process of writers solving problems of their own creation.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

In the Far West there is one thing which is more fabulously valuable then gold, even. And that is a story, whether it be truth or good, true-sounding fiction. Stories

Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the world.

Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story.

First novels were always at least somewhat autobiographical,

Male novelists made up words in their fiction: "phallomaterialism"; "ero-tectonics.

Sometimes an alternative world is much better than the real one.

All of this is fiction And all of it is true

I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is excellent. I will post about some of my favorites that should appeal to adult readers