Fiction Quotes

And I will strike down upon those with great vengeance and with furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know that my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

The Mad Hatter: [speaking to the Red Queen] What a regrettably large head you have. I would very much like to hat it. I used to hat The White Queen, you know. Her head was so small.

The Red Queen: It’s tiny. It’s a pimple of a head.

There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

It’s difficult to share entirely the view of a fictional character. An author’s life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character’s remains frozen in one little story.

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind [...] For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.

It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at work is writing good fiction.

Trying to learn about the future from science fiction is like trying to learn about love from romance novels.

They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep him.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.