We all create fictions to hide our pain

“She smiled sinisterly. Light mist started to slowly swirl around us. All I could see was her, the tall rocks and the white wall.…

— Erica Sehyun Song

Religious fictions,fates are illusion to science

— You'ng Micky M'yzzy

“He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.”

— Anne Carson

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

— Vanna Bonta

“This is not one of your fictions where people bleed ink.”

— Terence Paul Winter

“I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she is clueless…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“Generations are fictions.”

— Jeff Chang

“There is a continuity of all things that make classifications fictions. But all human knowledge depends upon arrangements. Then all books--scientific, theological, philosophical--are only…

— Charles Fort

In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.

— Henry Austin Dobson

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand,…

— Manuel Puig

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

— John Banville

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to…

— Colin Meloy

“No one wants the complete picture, the whole story. It would leave no room for the fictions we need to tell ourselves about ourselves.”

— Caite Dolan-Leach

“Men may write fictions portraying lowly life as it is, or as it is not—may expatiate with owlish gravity upon the bliss of ignorance—discourse…

— Solomon Northup

“Perhaps we are all fictions, father, in the mind of God.”

— Graham Greene