All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?
Milan KunderaTags: empathy on-fiction fiction
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
Mary Ann ShafferTags: humor on-fiction gender-stereotypes
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
Alan MooreTags: on-fiction storytelling parables
...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.
Ted ConoverTags: writing on-fiction fiction storytelling new-journalism
Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it."
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T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.
MadonnaTags: on-fiction fiction
I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart.
Julia HallTags: love on-fiction heartbreak fictional-characters
A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.
Isaac BabelTags: reality on-fiction fiction story narrative
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
Bruno BettelheimTags: truth reading reality education learning children on-fiction fiction comprehension nonfiction
They weren't true stories; they were better than that.
Alice HoffmanTags: stories on-fiction fiction storytelling fairy-tale
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