3,834 Quotes About Fiction

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

You sure you won’t get lost?”I pulled my phone out of my pocket. “GPS,” I said. “No one ever gets lost anymore.

Every story has a perfect length, whether long or short. It is up to the author to find out what that length is.

Read fiction to open your mind to greater possibilities and read non-fiction to learn the constraints of dreams and the facts that might guide you to attain one.

I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The bulk of what I know about human life I’ve gotten from novels. And I think the thing about novels that make them important to the people who love them is that there’s always another perspective.

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

Bəzən fikirləşirəm ki, ümid insanda ən səfeh hisslərdən biridir. Nəyəsə qəti nöqtə qoymağımıza daim əngəldir.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?