Quotes about Fiction
We are what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
- Aldous Huxley
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
- Aldous Huxley
The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense, whereas reality never makes sense.
- Aldous Huxley
Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.
- Dr. Seuss
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
- Virginia Woolf
Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I married the heroine of my stories.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
- Ian Mckellen
Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.
- Anne Lamott
Victory is a political fiction.
- Anonymous
Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.
- Ezra Taft Benson