I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
Berkeley BreathedTag: characters on-fiction fiction
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
Tim O'BrienTag: truth writing stories on-fiction fiction
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..
Gabriel García MárquezTag: humor writing on-fiction fiction lying
In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.
Eileen FavoriteTag: books beauty on-fiction fiction
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
Albert CamusTag: on-fiction
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
Richard BachTag: inspiration on-fiction fiction values
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.
Flannery O'ConnorTag: devil writing evil grace on-fiction fiction storytelling
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
Diane SetterfieldTag: books writing stories on-fiction fiction
Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
Jasper FfordeTag: humor on-fiction fiction
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.
Joyce Carol OatesTag: writing on-fiction fiction
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