Quotes About Fiction

The Jedi aren't the Republican Guard. And never will be.

What's real and what's not? People we meet in books--Holden Caulfield, Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Bilbo and Gandalf and Frodo-- can become more memorable, and more important to us than people with birth certificates and drivers' licenses. Characters spawned in an author's imagination find a home inside us. They make our lives richer. They become our best friends. They never disappoint. And they never die.

Reagan's easy slippage between movies and reality is synechdochic for a political culture increasingly impervious to distinctions between fiction and history.

En mi juventud me enseñaron que en el corazón de cada historia se esconde una semilla de realidad" -Bastet

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies, and in the end isn't that the real truth? The answer is no." No squared. The postmodernist belief in the

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology.

La lectura, y sobre todo la lectura novelesca, es un tipo de sueño; un sueño que no realizamos dormidos sino en un estado particular que no corresponde enteramente a estar despierto.

seguramente el amor, igual que la piedad según Nietzsche, nunca había sido otra cosa que una ficción inventada por los débiles para culpabilizar a los fuertes, para imponer límites a su libertad y su ferocidad naturales.

Bruno tenía razón, el amor paterno era una ficción, una mentira. Una mentira es útil cuando permite transformar la realidad, pensó; pero cuando la transformación fracasa sólo queda la mentira, la amargura y la conciencia de la mentira

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

I figured that kind of delightful explosion was reserved for fictional heroines with perfect complexions and no cellulite on their thighs.

Yes, this is a memoir of a real experience. It is not fiction. I was on a search committee for a senior minister and this is my story of that search. Others might tell it differently.

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.

None of it's real. - Pirra

from What to Read by Mickey Pearlman - A book for book clubs From chapter -- "How to Read": Rule 1: BAN at the outset any discussion that focuses on "Did you like the book." This is not a popularity contest, any worthwhile piece of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how beloved or detested teaches the reader something.

Soy la vida, la Manzana-Rosa del Ave del Paraíso; soy la mentira de todas las cosas reales, la realidad de todas las ficciones!

Mira, eso del amor es una cosa de libros, algo que se ha inventado no más que para hablar y escribir de ello. Tonterías de poetas

Leer, leer, leer, vivir la vida que otros soñaron. Leer, leer, leer, el alma olvida las cosas que pasaron. Se quedan las que quedan, las ficciones, las flores de la pluma, las solas, las humanas creaciones, el poso de la espuma. Leer, leer, leer; ¿seré lectura mañana también yo? ¿Seré mi creador, mi criatura, seré lo que pasó?

No fim, tu morres. No fim do livro, tu morres. Assim mesmo, como se morre nos romances: sem aviso, sem razão, a benefício apenas da história que se quis contar. Assim, tu morres e eu conto. E ficamos de contas saldadas.

Probably the master of the time-dislocation story was J. G. Ballard. His view, evident in much of his short fiction, was that time was degrading and this resulted in

When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on the page, and takes its place.

Eventually, religion began making up dots where no dots had ever existed.

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.