3,834 Quotes About Fiction

...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.

After a moment, Wrath turned to John. "This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on earth, there was a plague in central Europe-""Okay, that was so not my fault-""-which wiped out two-thirds of the human population.""I'd like to remind you that you don't like humans.""They smell bad when they're dead.""All you mortal types do.

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.

It hurt, remembering. Hurt because there was so much I'd done, so much I'd yet to do. In so many different ways, I now realized, not remembering had been a blessing. A brief respite in the twisted bloody mess that my life had become.But at least I knew who I was.

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

When you come to a detour, take it.

The only sweeter than union is reunion.