Fictions Quotes

65 Fictions quotes by 61 unique authors

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them.… — Richard Schickel
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life… — Charles de Lint
It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the… — Madame de Stael
In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin… — Sylvia Brownrigg
Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is… — Ted Dekker
In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do… — Junot Diaz
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of… — Lawrence Durrell
I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way… — Charlie Kaufman
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that… — Alice Munro
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. — Haruki Murakami
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. — Robert Anton Wilson
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept. — Libba Bray
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but… — Alan Moore
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. — Orson Scott Card
They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart. — John Banville
Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical… — Lauren Slater
You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that… — Brad Warner
The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction… — Libba Bray
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here… — Twyla Tharp
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the… — Fernando Pessoa
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create… — Neil Gaiman
Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source… — R. D. Laing
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to… — Joe Hill

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