Quotes about Fiction
You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason.
— Anne Lamott
When enough fiction is written and enough scientific hypotheses are proposed, sooner or later there will be accidental concordances.
— Carl Sagan
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
— GK Chesterton
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
— Mark Twain
A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated—as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man.
— Ayn Rand
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin, see it in your mind's eye and smell it with your mind's nose! But forming these images from the printed page is a skill you have to develop when you're fairly young, I think, or else it's very difficult to read for pleasure later on.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention
— Barbara Kingsolver
I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
— Elizabeth George
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
— Ernest Hemingway
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
— Mark Twain
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
— Joseph Campbell