Fiction Quotes

While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value.

Evan Meekins

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

Joseph Conrad

Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

Diana Ossana

She cries cuz shes lost and she doesn't even know what she wants. Her eyes grow cold as she begs the world to just let her go.lines from Love Vs Destiny...

Atul Purohit

Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely good enough' to a vision of what is truly great......and then to give us the stories of men and women of character who in turn inspire those of us who dare to reach for the truly great within ourselves.THAT is why you write fiction.

Holly Lisle

Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm talking about ... that stranger-than variety.

Dick Peterson

Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.

Adam Levin

Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

Cormac McCarthy

Many writers must have realized human fiction is making much more out of the sense that our reality unfailingly lacks.

Jaf Liethers

The best fiction is true.

Kinky Friedman

It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen you, William Ore, you must also choose me.

M.J. Chrisman

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing--until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

Julian Barnes

Be careful who you choose as your friends because their bad habits can become your bad habits. Choose wisely...we all have a choice in life.

Mimi Jenkins

I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for And I woke up!

Rahul Rampal

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

Victor Hugo

A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested... and you must stay faithful to the word and vision that the All-Father has given to you.

M.J. Chrisman

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.

Wallace Stegner

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?''For fun?''Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.

John Fowles