Quotes About Fiction

Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. But she did something that surprised me even more... She kissed me.

Did he just call his hammer Mee-Mee? - Magnus

Oo! Nico raised his hand. What about Dr. Thorn? That was awesome how you shot him with arrows! Is he dead?

I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

Like your zodiac sign?" Percy asked. "I'm a Leo." "No, stupid," Leo said. "I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.

I hate this god. 'Exactly, Mr Elf!' Thor said.

The Starship Enterprise is not a collection of motion picture sets or a model used in visual effects. It is a very real vehicle; one designed for storytelling.

His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already.

who is to say which of these is real and which a fiction? In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

Romances serve but to feed the imagination of the young; they add nothing to the sum of truth.

When I'm writing about myself, I write out of a strong urge not to protect myself. When I feel ego or self justification or defensiveness creeping in or a wish to make myself look better than I was, I squelch it, if I can. It takes vigilance. Exposing myself is the only way to go, though. If I'd rather wear veils, I should write fiction.

Perhaps this is a dream, said Madam La Vaughn from her chair. Perhaps the whole thing has been nothing but a dream.

He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.

L'histoire est un roman qui a été, le roman est une histoire qui aurait pu être History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been E & J de Goncourt

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

Maps are dreams: both describe desire, where you want to go, but never the reality of the destination.

What this all amounted to was that as I was growing up, long before I'd ever thought to create fictional worlds in prose, I was busily constructing in my mind a richly detailed place called 'Japan' – a place to which I in some way belonged, and from which I drew a certain sense of my identity and my confidence.

It was my wish to re-build my Japan in fiction, to make it safe, so that I could thereafter point to a book and say: 'Yes, there's my Japan, inside there.

As a writer, I am more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

What's next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute.

Singling out "women's fiction" for genre derision never fails to piss me off. Somehow worse when women do it. Case in pt: Editor says crowd-sourcing editorial for romance & erotica not bad idea b/c "no great artistry at stake" Yes, genre fiction not high art. But it's a craft we take seriously, writing for love of storytelling, not writing whatever sells.

He pointed to the bandage on his neck. "Elf bite." "Vampire elf?" Gabriel said. "There is no such thing as vampires." I turned to Ricky. "He keeps hoping for them, and he's always disappointed." "I am not—" Gabriel began. "Are too.

I believe you are conflating your fantasy worlds." "You