Quotes about Fiction

Without desire how is it possible to make a story?

I don't like dragons and blood all that much.

The main thing I would say is: Lady Loki in the comics is a very different character to our character, obviously.

I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people outside of books.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in 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

It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, 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; and how little can a man know even of that when he observes it through the black or rosy spectacles which sex puts upon his nose.

Virtually all the characters in the novel have failed to live up to their early dreams and ambitions.

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.

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.