The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are , they are not ...
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.
If you don't feel you have any choice in a situation, self-esteem and confidence plummet. But once you understand that you do have a choice, self-esteem will improve. You aren't a helpless victim anymore. You decide how you deal with a situation. You aren't just reacting to life; you're creating your life.
The best fiction is true.
Make your problems becomeopportunities instead ofobstacles.
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.
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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.
The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.
In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
Dream sets us on fire.Dream gives us direction.Dream betters our potential.Dream helps us prioritize.Dream adds value to our work andlife.Dream colors our future.
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,How much would novels gain by the exchange!How differently the world would men behold!
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it won't reflect the storyteller's true beliefs, it will only reflect what he BELIEVES he believes, or what he thinks he should believe or what he's been persuaded of. But when you write without deliberately expressing moral teachings, the morals that show up are the ones you actually live by. The beliefs that you don't even think to question, that you don't even notice-- those will show up. And that tells much more truth about what you believe than your deliberate moral machinations.
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