F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.”
“Fiction is socially meaningful.”
“Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.”
“Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.”
“Fiction is supposed to enhance reality, not enslave it.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“fiction is the great lie that tells the truth”
“Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.”
“Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.”
“Fiction is the lie that tells the truth.
We all have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that society is huge and the individual is less than nothing.
But the truth is individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.”
Source: Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
“Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.”
Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
“Fiction is the microscope of truth.”
“Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.”
“Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.”
“Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life”
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.”
Source: The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales
“Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.”
“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.”
Source: The Painting of Porcupine City
“Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.”
Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)
“Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It's very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.”
“Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.”
“Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.”
“Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and other lives through stories. Made-up stories. Fiction.”
Source: Wickedly Charming
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales." And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day "advancements" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question "Who designated myths and legends as unreality? " But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors "You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.”
“Fiction isn’t an escape—it’s a holiday to the part of ourselves we haven’t met yet.”
Source: The God in the Dirt: A Gothic Horror Western
“Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.”
“Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.”
“Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.”
“Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.”
Source: Living by Fiction
“Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.”
“Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.”
“Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.”
“Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.”
Source: When I Was A Child I Read Books
“fiction must be different from reportage; painting from photography. And this difference should be reflected in the language of the work”
“Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.”
“Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.”
Source: Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life
“Fiction novels, that's my game.”
“Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.”
“Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.”
“Fiction Often Contains Truth”
Source: Templar Veil: Secrets Beneath the Chapel
“Fiction opens a window of imagination that reality closes.”
“Fiction operates through the senses, and I think one reason that people find it so difficult to write stories is that they forget how much time and patience is required to convince through the senses. No reader who doesn't actually experience, who isn't made to feel, the story is going to believe anything the fiction writer merely tells him. The first and most obvious characteristic of fiction is that it deals with reality through what can be seen, heard, smelt, tasted, and touched.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“Fiction or fable allures to instruction.”
“Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story.”
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
Source: To see the dream
“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.”
“Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.”