Quotes about Fiction

And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as friends. (...) almost without exception they are shown in their relation to men. (...) [women in fiction were] not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman's life is that

Truth is stranger than fiction because we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

In the vast catastrophe of the European war our emotions had to be broken up for us, and put at an angle from us, before we could allow ourselves to feel them in poetry or fiction.

You will also find authors who do not know the difference between theory and practice, just as there are novelists who do not know the difference between fiction and sociology.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

God creates history, while people create an epic or a drama, drawn either from God's history or from unreality and pure fiction.

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.

Fiction is not the opposite of truth—indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.