Quotes About Fiction

I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.

Webb read fantasy; Jude read realism

There's no such thing as Atticus Finch.' I shrug. 'It'd be good if there was, though.

Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine.

Apparently, he was too bust living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine.

Hobbits, just another Tolkien Minority

En tots els meus personatges hi ha característiques meves, però cap dels meus personatges no és jo.

A story is not always a lie," said Tristan. "Some stories are truer than truth." Truer than truth? That sounded like something liars made up to tell people who found them out.

Part 2: Answer These Questions. Fiction: What is the Big Problem or central conflict? Who are the main characters? What are their goals, their mission? What are they trying to accomplish? What is the catalyst/presenting problem? Who or what are the biggest obstacles the main character has to face? What is at stake?

the human mind is alike in every race and sect of people: when the danger isn't close enough, or when enough generations have passed so that the reality of hardship and persecution ceases to be real, the threats fade. They take on the quality of interesting fiction.

I told him that the lawyers were always saying 'You can't say that you'll get sued.' He said to me, 'Write fiction Michael, you can tell the truth.' (Kirk Douglas to Michael Caine)

Books were another form of fog, dipping down to infiltrate and insidiously undermine the authoritative, official version, showing it up for the sham it was. He knew the stories were all made up, the characters puppets, the outcome predetermined, so why did they seem more real than reality? And why was no one else shocked by this gleeful scandal?

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

President Donald Trump chose "Make America Great Again" as his 2016 campaign slogan. It sounded the call to white America to return to simpler, better days. But the golden age of the past is a fiction, a projection of nostalgia that selects what is most comforting to remember. It summons a past that was not great for all; in fact, it is a past that was not great at all, not with racism and sexism clouding the culture.

30) Wrong ending? J.K. Rowling herself admits that she regrets not pairing Harry and Hermione together at the end of the series. If she could go back she wouldn't have paired Ron and Hermione with each other.

Of course, he could shoot lasers out of his eyes and his butt, just like Little Bunny Boom-Boom.

Norwegian Ridgeback

The notion of a "pure" science free from metaphysical and theological contamination is a fiction and therefore already the expression of a theology.

Why is it so hard to explain the basis of state authority? The most likely reason is that there is no explanation for political authority, because political authority is a fiction.

AGAIN, this website is a forum to shed light on things in a positive and truthful way. It is about bringing the world the truth about any situations or stories reported in the media that are worthy of discussing. It is about righting the wrongs and determining facts from fiction."Gawker: Lindsay Lohan's Dad Blogging (December 27, 2008)9

I read nonfiction for information, fiction for truth.

I was a nerd in high school. Still am. That is why I had to write I KISSED A GHOUL ... because it is about a nerd in high school. It is my first Young Adult book too. Hope you enjoy it...

A Russian television series called Sleepers, in which the United States is plotting to overthrow the Russian government, began airing in the fall of 2017. In the show, the U.S. ambassador is blond; his name is Michael. They haven't forgotten about me yet!)

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful