68 Quotes About On-fiction

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.