Quotes About Fiction

Anaemia is an illness primarily affecting characters in novels.

I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your own.

There is no fact or fiction, only imagined truths.

Never trust a fiction author. They spend countless hours making you believe in a world they created. They are among the best, most dedicated liars in the world.

Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.

Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be.

Fiction is most effective when its themes are unspoken. An ideal fiction has a kind of thematic ghostliness, whereby the novel marks its meanings most strongly as it passes, as it disappears, rather as on a street snow gets dirtier, more marked, as it disappears.

fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities.

Beware: I'm unafraid to host a big spoiler party--a novel that can be truly "spoiled" by the summary of its plot is a novel that was already spoiled by that plot.

Das Problem war nur, dass Karin zu wenig über die Leute wusste, die sie in ihren Büchern verurteilen wollte.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

I like norby though time and space because he's not all smart and the storys verry interesting

Specific, definite, concrete, particular details—these are the life of fiction. Details (as every good liar knows) are the stuff of persuasiveness.

Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.

By definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

Some stories are real. And a lot of stories that aren't real are still true.

Terry liked fiction, so we had Joe Heller, Richard Price, Tom McGuane, Robert Stone, J. P. Donleavy, and Kurt Vonnegut writing for us. Terry was not a rock and roller; Terry liked hanging out at Elaine's.

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10 000 years.

You can only live in a world of make-believe for so long, before reality comes calling.

Anti-Tachyon displacement emitter AKA Flux Capacitor

Sometimes there are truths in fiction. In fantasy. Sometimes made-up stories tell us more about who we are than reality.

scanning the selection of movies, but suddenly they all seem fake and horrible and awful—full of false promises and bullshit happy endings.