Quotes
Quotes about Fiction
Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes Are something more than fictions.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise. -Nancy Thayer.
Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.âPierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.
An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
A film isâor should beâmore like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.
The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own image. Rather does he create Him in the image of his cravings and dreams- in the image of what man wants to be. God making could be part of the process by which a society realizes its aspirations: it first embodies them in the conception of a particular God, and then proceeds to imitate that God. The confidence requisite for attempting the unprecedented is most effectively generated by the fiction that in realizing the new we are imitating rather than originating. Our preoccupation with heaven can be part of an effort to find precedents for the unprecedented.
Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
