Good fiction doesn’t claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice—the way we all know things should be—without suggesting that’s how things really are. Good fiction is the mirage that declares itself a mirage, yet compels us to faith through its beauty. Good fiction is the dream that’s too good to be true, so perfect and symmetrical that it gives itself away every time. But it doesn’t trick you into suspending your disbelief by trying to look anything like reality. Good fiction makes you acutely, painfully aware of your disbelief, and makes you believe anyway. And when it’s done well—when it’s done right—good fiction is more real than reality.
P.S. BaberSo long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.
--Egwene al'Vere
Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.
Stephen KingTag: writing fiction good-writing bad-writing
Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.
E.J. StevensTag: fantasy paranormal-romance fiction mystery humorous paranormal young-adult urban-fantasy mystery-series spirit-guide-series paranormal-suspense spirit-storm
We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.
Mario Vargas LlosaTag: reading fiction nobel-prize in-praise-of-reading-and-fiction
From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to the era of globalization, the fictions of literature have multiplied human experiences, preventing us from succumbing to lethargy, self-absorption, resignation. Nothing has sown so much disquiet, so disturbed our imagination and our desires as the life of lies we add, thanks to literature, to the one we have, so we can be protagonists in the great adventures, the great passions real life will never give us. The lies of literature become truths through us, the readers transformed, infected with longings and, through the fault of fiction, permanently questioning a mediocre reality. Sorcery, when literature offers us the hope of having what we do not have, being what we are not, acceding to that impossible existence where like pagan gods we feel mortal and eternal at the same time, that introduces into our spirits non-conformity and rebellion, which are behind all the heroic deeds that have contributed to the reduction of violence in human relationships. Reducing violence, not ending it. Because ours will always be, fortunately, an unfinished story. That is why we have to continue dreaming, reading, and writing, the most effective way we have found to alleviate our mortal condition, to defeat the corrosion of time, and to transform the impossible into possibility.
Mario Vargas LlosaTag: reading fiction nobel-prize in-praise-of-reading-and-fiction
Justice will prevail!
Tsugumi OhbaTag: humor justice death will fiction manga anime l note prevail lawliet
An eye for an eye my friend.
Tsugumi OhbaTag: humor friend death light fiction manga anime eye l yagami note lawliet
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
Norton JusterTag: humor imagination illusions reality fantasy on-fiction fiction imaginary children-s
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
Norton JusterTag: fantasy fiction absurd kids nonsense sound hearing bathtub silly octopus
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