3,834 Quotes About Fiction

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

Computer Coding is a life skill for this generation.

You can revise a story, you can edit a film, but you can only alter an event by lying about it.

Dude, it's mind control. That's got to be the best superpower ever!

I heard our kid here is quite the scrapper.

If upper management found out, they’d send you off to the Probing Department.

He gives new meaning to the word bombed.

My memories came back like a punch in the face. Only good.

Reading fiction, I see through the prism of another person's understanding; reading everything else, I am travelling--I am travelling in the way that I still can: new sights, new experiences. I am reminded sometimes of the intensity of childhood reading, that absolute absorption when the very ability to read was a heady new gain, the gateway to a different place, to a parallel universe you hadn't known was there. The one entirely benign mind-altering drug.