Fiction Quotes

“Every story is true. But some of them never happened.”

“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery.”

“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”

“They threw me off the hay truck about noon.”

“A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.”

“Fiction is a way of knowing, a way of engaging with the world.”

“Fiction can be a powerful tool to communicate truth.”

“Novels tell us the most truth about life: the stories are technically lies, but they contain psychological and emotional truth.”

“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”

“That is the power of fiction, that it can connect us to our own humanity.”

“I think fiction is the most important thing in the world.”

“We have to remind ourselves that fiction is not reality. It’s a creative act.”

“What we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”

“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”

“But it's a story, and nobody minds a story as long as it's interesting.”

“In a totalitarian state, fiction is a dangerous and subversive activity.”

“Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.”

“Truth has the structure of fiction.”

“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.”