Fiction Quote by Robert Coover

I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic…

— Ben Lerner

“Okay, let's say that a metamove or metagesture is when the author intentionally draws attention to a work's genre, its very existence as fiction…

— Jill Talbot

Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing, and she's…

— Jill Talbot

“metawriting can be viewed as "the act of doing something outside of the game in order to impact what is actually occurring in the…

— Jill Talbot

In a way, metafiction breaks down the story and makes it less real. But in another respect, by that very breaking down, it actually…

— James Gunn

Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.

— Kate Wilhelm

“Jacopo, while I could still read, during these past months, I read dictionaries, I studied histories of words, to understand what was happening in…

— Umberto Eco

I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series…

— Carolyn Wheat

Writing is a form of self-flagellation.

— William Styron

“Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination,…

— Neil Gaiman

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

— Kathy Acker

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most…

— Jhumpa Lahiri