3,834 Quotes About Fiction

The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss - you can 'beat it' and there's never enough. At least in my opinion - cause there are people, who complain about style intensity in literature: they prefer cereals with milk than abyssinian bitches roasted alive on bringhausers and watered with ya-yoo juice.

Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.

Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition, false.

I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.

You are not dead until you are warm and dead!

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.