Quotes About Fiction

Wick spoke in such alchemies and distillations of hope that I couldn't pick out the facts from the fictions, or which he told me to reassure himself.

Can you not distinguish truth from fiction? Or were you never taught the difference?

Nothing would seem to be too absurd for such uses. Thus, it has been gravely stated that a caucus of Southern Senators, held in the early part of January, "resolved to assume to themselves the political power of the South"; that they took entire control of all political and military operations; that they issued instructions for the passage of ordinances of secession, and for the seizure of forts, arsenals, and custom-houses; with much more of the like groundless fiction.

It has been fully shown that the States which thus became and continued to be "united," whatever form their union assumed, acted and continued to act as distinct and sovereign political communities. The monstrous fiction that they acted as one people "in their aggregate capacity" has not an atom of fact to serve as a basis. To go back to the very beginning, the British colonies never constituted one people.

In that moment, I realized how dangerous it was to keep company with the characters from books. They lived books lives of fierce deeds and deep yearning.

I cannot say that truth is stranger than fiction, because I have never had acquaintance with either,

Hey, do me a favor and grab my butt," Olaf´s head said to Hans.

I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.

We used to say he must've met you in the fiction section.

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

One cannot find that which never existed!

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

I turn to contemporary fiction seeking a shared awareness with the writer of the cultural moment we both occupy, its peculiar challenges.

Sometimes make-believe is just another word for rare.

Like, even in fiction, friends to lovers? Never my thing. I'm more star-crossed tragedy, supernatural soul mates, enemies to lovers. Epic, you know?

Like all stories, it has pieces which are true, and pieces which are fiction. Nothing is ever really what it seems. Remember

And as Rhonda told the story, she thought: this is how the past gets passed down. This is how memories are made. Half-invented, embellished, given a touch of whimsy. Daniel would be a saint now that he was dead. A beautiful man who made his child wings.

There is nothing more fugal than a book to take you to different lands

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

Are stories true? ... They're magic, they're not about real people walking around today. So they're fake? No, no. Stories are a different kind of true.

Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.

So they're fake? No, no. Stories are a different kind of true.

So they're fake? No, no. Stories are a different kind of true. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.