Quotes About Fiction

when I die I'll meet my characters in heaven. And they won't be made at me . . ." Nick Cole Probably the coolest quote from an author I have ever heard!

Is there a reason for a literate person to read century-old pulp fiction?

What Lovecraft did do, better than anyone, was radically decenter the human experience from the art of fiction.

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

Hild forgot about the princess's eyes when she saw the beads: seventy-three faced carnelians.

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

In the absence of facts, we tell ourselves stories.

In the absence of facts, he thinks, we tell ourselves stories.

Of the true mysteries of the universe . . . the one we may never solve is the mystery of other people. This is the underlying subject of all fiction--Who ARE you, and why are you different from me?--from a NYT Book Review review of Since We Fell, by Dennis Lehane

All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell. Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

le roman « L'Enveloppe noire » (1986) proposait une allégorie du quotidien socialiste avec de forts accents politiques, à une époque où la dictature encourageait l'écrivain « esthète » détaché de la réalité du moment. (p. 49)

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

Remember too that to me the word myth, like the words fable and fiction, is a technical term in criticism, and the popular sense in which it means something untrue I regard as a debasing of language.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

If you read novels you sympathize with people who are different kinds of people than you are.

?nsanlar, yaln?zca kitaplarda ?a??r?rlar. Romanc?lar ?a??rt?r onlar?

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

Fantasy is totally wide open all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.