Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia Woolf
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, или to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.
Jean Baudrillard
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
William Faulkner
Imagination and fiction make up еще than three-quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
Fiction was invented the день Jonas arrived Главная and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate или the work of imagining will not stand up.
Margaret Culkin Banning
The reason that fiction is еще interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the Автор can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Jim Rohn
Fiction is Любовь and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.
A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
Fiction Письмо is great. Ты can make up almost anything..
Ivana Trump
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
Philip Roth
The reason that fiction is еще interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the Автор can really tell the truth without humiliating himself..
Jim Rohn
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. еще often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust..
Charles Chesnutt
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all..
Isaac Asimov
Journalism is popular, but it is Популярное mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another..
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A film is - или should be - еще like Музыка than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick
As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non-fiction-histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts.
Dan Brown
The notion that the public accepts или rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Tom Wolfe
Everything a writer learns about the art или craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need или desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
Heinrich Heine
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
Facts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter Conrad
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
J G Ballard
I do not see the motivation to lie, it is a known fact that truth can be еще interesting than the strangest of fictions.
James Hall
A fiction about soft или easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful или demeaning.
Susan Sontag
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac Asimov
The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as Ты may think and the two definitely interact.
Ken Follet
дана that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
J G Ballard
If Ты are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better Вопрос yourself. Fiction is association, not
A B Guthrie Jr
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Salman Rushdie
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
John Podhoretz
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
Joseph Conrad
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
George Eliot
Письмо a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
Janet Frame
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
Oscar Wilde
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
Virginia Woolf
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
Robert Browning
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently еще sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
W. Somerset Maugham
The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Письмо novels preserves Ты in a state of innocence -- a lot passes Ты by -- simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
Anita Brookner
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
Henry Miller
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new день demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them или not.
Roald Dahl
Two hours of Письмо fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
Herman Wouk
When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
John Gay
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
Clive James
Fiction is an act of revenge.
John Hawkes
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Edward Albee
Ты cannot be free if Ты are contained withing a fiction.
Julian Beck
It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a сэндвич, бутерброд board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh...
Lembit Opik
When Письмо a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory или philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting или thoughtful mood.
Unknown
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Oscar Wilde
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
Anthony Burgess
Вопросы are fiction, and Ответы are anything from еще fiction to science-fiction.
Saul Steinberg
Иисус of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, Ты must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.
Dudley Nichols
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
G.K. Chesterton
Romances I never read like those I have seen.
Lord Byron
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Henry James
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
Salman Rushdie
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual."
Anthony Burgess
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed еще effectively, еще compellingly, through fiction.
Diana Ossana
An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.
V. S. Naipaul
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction..
Virginia Woolf
Cut quarrels out of literature, and Ты will have very little history или drama или fiction или epic Поэзия left.
Robert Lynd
I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.
Clive Barker
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, Фильмы where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate или know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
David Foster Wallace
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into Популярное imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free или original imaginative response to experience by the Телевидение screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.
J. G. Ballard