Fiction Quotes
15 quotations about Fiction
Novels are longer than life.
Romances I never read like those I have seen.
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.