Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““the good end happily, the bad end unhappily -- that is what 'fiction' means.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.” — Nathaniel Robert Winters Copy Share Image
“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out… — William Gerhardie Copy Share Image
“I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.” — Darcey Steinke Copy Share Image
“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.” — James D. Maxon Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.” — Caro Clarke Copy Share Image
“Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.” — A.D.Y. Howle Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
