29 Quotes About Metafiction
- Author Roger Zelazny
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Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it.Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?'A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.'You enjoy this duty?'He nodded.I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.
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- Author Ashim Shanker
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The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.
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- Author Sol Luckman
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The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.
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- Author Sol Luckman
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Home. The word circled comfortably in my mouth like bubble gum, swished around sweetly soft and satisfying. Home. Try saying it aloud to yourself. Home. Isn’t it like taking a bite of something lovely? If only we could eat words.
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- Author Laurie Calhoun
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They are merely actors, playing roles in complex dramas and intrigues to remain forever, they suppose, fictional.
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- Author Alan Moore
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Murder, other than in the most strict forensic sense, is never soluble. That dark human clot can never melt into a lucid, clear suspension. Our detective fiction tells us otherwise: everything is just meat and cold ballistics. Provide a murderer, a motive and a means, and you have solved the crime. Using this method, the solution to the Second World War is as follows: Hitler. The German economy. Tanks. Thus, for convenience, we reduce the complex events.
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- Author James Jones
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Two whores who finally found something to mother. A guy could write a book about it, he thought bitterly, call it From Hair To Maternity. It would probly be a very long book. Whores did not produce as fast as rabbits.
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- Author Jorges Luis Borges
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One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory.
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- Author Chris Campanioni
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Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.
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