Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.
Leonard S. MarcusTags: fantasy on-fiction fiction fairytales
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
Tim O'BrienTags: truth lies writing on-fiction fiction
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.
Tim O'BrienTags: writing on-fiction fiction
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Benjamin DisraeliTags: romance on-fiction fiction
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
Khaled HosseiniTags: truth art books deception lies writing on-fiction fiction novels plot weaving
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Herman WoukTags: on-fiction fiction income-tax taxes taxing
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.
Orson Scott CardTags: reading on-fiction fiction
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
Orson Scott CardTags: on-fiction fiction escapism
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
Marvin MinskyTags: humor on-fiction fiction science-fiction interviews
While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: on-fiction fiction
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