Fiction Quotes

Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just...Jean: A little brat who swears a lotMaes: An arrogant pipsqueakRoy: Useless. Just uselessAlphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that...Ed *starts to cry*: YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!!!

Hiromu Arakawa

Fact and fiction are different truths.

Patricia MacLachlan

To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again.lines from Love Vs Destiny...

Atul Purohit

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

John Cheever

I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...

Cordwainer Smith

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

Arthur C. Clarke

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

I am going to show you great and mighty things which no one has ever seen before.... I am going to take you places where no one has ever been. I am going to take you to heights where no one has ever reached. If you will only come to me with all your heart, I will do a mighty work in you, which no man can undo but yourself.

M.J. Chrisman

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

Eileen Favorite

It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind.

Pauline Clarke

But in the end, black can never be white, one plus one must always equal two, and Mara Lynn was a normal little girl.

Jake Vander Ark

That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.

Terry Pratchett

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.

Vera Nazarian

Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.

Evan Meekins

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

Rick Barnett

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

John L'Heureux

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.

Laura Kreitzer

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

Tim O'Brien

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

Oakley Hall