Belief Quote by Wallace Stevens

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is…

— Wallace Stevens

About the time of the end, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist…

— Sir Isaac Newton

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

— Italo Calvino

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to…

— Alan Moore

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

— Orson Scott Card

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

— Wislawa Szymborska

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

— Herman Melville

Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

— Elmore Leonard

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“There is already fiction in the glance”

— Victor Erice

Storybook endings, fairy tales coming true. Deep down inside we want to believe they still do. In our secretest heart, it's our favorite part…

— Carrie Underwood

As one tale ends, so another begins.

— Jackie Chan