68 Quotes About On-fiction

While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,How much would novels gain by the exchange!How differently the world would men behold!

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.