Quotes About Fiction

"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly.""really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

You can do anything when it's not real.

It's easy to find that five or six hours have sped by without my noticing. I am having fun. This is not my world, these are not my fears. Supernatural is great storytelling, and it is not my story.

It was several decades later that I encountered that footnote, and with it my own ignorance of the Congo's early history. Then it occurred to me that, like millions of other people, I had read something about that time and place after all: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. However, with my college lecture notes on the novel filled with scribbles about Freudian overtones, mythic echoes, and inward vision, I had mentally filed away the book under fiction, not fact.

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.

The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable.

We all reinvent our pasts, but writers are in a class of their own

I am a beau only in my books.

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

Bad prose is the bugbear of genre fiction.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.

It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble.

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and as much creatures of the readers imagination as the characters in their books.

Presto la regina decise che probabilmente era meglio incontrare gli autori dentro le pagine dei romanzi, creature dell'immaginazione del lettore come i personaggi. Non sembravano neppure grati a chi aveva letto i loro libri; erano loro ad averci fatto la cortesia di scriverli.

The images we impress upon our mind, especially when accompanied by emotion, yield the same experience whether they are true or fictional.

Crazy thing is, it's all real. The Jedi, the Force—it's true. All true.

Luke Skywalker? I thought he was just a myth.

I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, I'm a Liar, right there on the dust jacket.