3,834 Quotes About Fiction

From the storage room under the basement stairs she pulled out a small cardboard trunk that could only have been Tomas’s. Inside was an unvarnished, incomplete violin…Tomas took one look and burst into tears.

My father bought my stepmother a gift to stop her nagging – he gave her a troubled, seven-year-old, curly-haired, dark-eyed little boy. Like he was presenting her with a floppy-eared puppy. It was stupid and callous and heart-breaking.

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

Surely, there's strength in being dressed for a storm, even when there's no storm in sight?

Breathe, Emma. Now is not the time to swoon.

In the event of life and death situations, the pretence of false egos fall and the decisive misunderstandings between the loved ones turn out to be trivialities and the strong opinions turn out to be masquerades which do not long last in the moment of truth." Quote from-I Know You Now

What is the difference between a dream and its memory?

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

I like to imagine that Adam's tongue, his palate and his lips were always on fire, that the air he breathed was kindled to incandescence each time he cried out in sorrow or delight. If fiction can be said to have a function, it is to release that primary fury of which language, even now, is miraculously capable - from the dry mud of daily use. So that furred, spotted and striped, it may - as it did in Eden - scrawl under every tree as revelation.