F Quotes
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“Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.”
“Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the moment of creation, in the insufficiency of words to convey meaning, or in the way the work is completed in the reader's head.”
“Fiction is always really a labor.”
“Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.”
“Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.”
“Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others”
“Fiction is an improvement on life”
Source: Women
“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.”
Source: Collected Stories
“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.”
“Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.”
“Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.”
“Fiction is empathy's gateway drug. It helps us feel for others when real-world caring is too difficult, complicated or painful. Because of this, it can restore bonds between people even when that seems impossible.”
Source: The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
“Fiction is empathy technology.”
“Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.”
“Fiction is for those who like to escape to an all expense paid, priceless journey to a place which may or may not exist for the sake experiencing every ride the attraction has to offer and to take anyone with them in exchange for the small cost of the purchase of the book.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.”
“Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.”
“Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.”
“Fiction is healthy for the mind so long as you do not confuse them with facts.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.”
“Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.”
“Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.”
“Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.”
“Fiction is life by design.”
“Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
Source: A Room of One’s Own
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.”
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.”
“Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.”
“Fiction is like wrestling with angels-you do not expect to win, but you do expect to come away from the experience changed.”
Source: Take Joy: The Writers Guide To Loving The Craft
“Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.”
Source: The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography
“Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can be approached in fiction than in fact. There are risks for the reader, because after reading certain books you find you have changed irreversibly. There are risks for writers: in China, now, and Ethiopia and other countries right now, writers face real persecution.”
“Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.”
“Fiction Is My Addiction”
“Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.”
“Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.”
“Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.”
“Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.”
“Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.”
“fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.”
“Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.”
“Fiction is not reality, and reality cannot be fiction. If fiction were to become reality, it would no longer be fiction.”
“Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.”
Source: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism
“Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose
“Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.”
“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.”
“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion - these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”
“Fiction is open to whoever comes in the door, as long as you come in energetically.”
“Fiction is real life with the boring parts left out. The same goes for true stories.”
Source: Business Storytelling from Hype to Hack: How Do Stories Work? Unlock the Software of the Mind