Quotes About Fiction

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere

There's no good story that doesn't touch the truth,

More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

how thin the line is between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story.

blatherskate," I

More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts.

how thin the line is between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story." Chronicler gave his words a minute to sink in. "You know which will win, given time.

stories were told here, but they happened somewhere else.

But you of all people should realize how thin the line is between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story.

Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

Of all the interpretations I've considered over the years, this is the one I like best. That doesn't mean it's true, but as long as it could be true, it pleases me to think it is.

By that point, of course, the girl no longer misses the doll. He has given her something else instead, and by the time those three weeks are up, the letters have cured her of her unhappiness. She has the story, and when a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

cuando una persona es lo bastante afortunada para vivir dentro de una historia, para habitar un mundo imaginario, las penas de este mundo desaparecen. Mientras la historia sigue su curso, la realidad deja de existir.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

The book was a work of fiction. Even though it was based on facts, it could tell nothing but lies. I signed the contract, and afterwards I felt like a man who had signed away his soul.

Lei ha una storia, e quando una persona è abbastanza fortunata da vivere in una storia, da vivere in un mondo immaginario, i dolori di questo mondo svaniscono. Perché, fino a quando la storia continua, la realtà non esiste più

Lei ha la storia, e quando una persona è abbastanza fortunata da vivere all'interno di una storia, da vivere in un mondo immaginario, i dolori di questo mondo svaniscono. Perché fino a quando la storia continua, la realtà non esiste più.

Bu adam hiç kimse de?ilse mutlaka Fanshawe'dur.

Unmitigated Blackness is essays passing for fiction. It's the realization that there are no absolutes, except when there are. It's the acceptance of contradiction not being a sin and a crime but a human frailty like split ends and libertarianism. Unmitigated Blackness is coming to the realization that as fucked up and meaningless as it all is, sometimes it's the nihilism that makes life worth living.

have no dramatic tension and would be boring. Finally, a focus on obstacles makes clear how the attraction of aversive fiction connects to what draws us in real life. In our actual lives, we seek out projects with difficulty and struggle, ones that involve surmounting obstacles. This is a large part of what gives life meaning.

The literary critic Helen Vendler writes that "treating fictions as moral pep-pills or moral emetics is repugnant to anyone who realizes the complex psychological and moral motives of a work of art.