Fiction Quotes

“The Crown is a historical soap opera, but it's not history.”

“In a totalitarian state, fiction is a dangerous and subversive activity.”

“Truth has the structure of fiction.”

“The best fiction is geared toward dissolving the walls that separate us.”

“Fiction is an antidote to ideology.”

“The map is not the territory, but a fiction that precedes it.”

“Reality is a fiction with a plot.”

“Fiction is a house of many windows, but only two or three doors.”

“I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of a work of fiction should be to tell a story.”

“Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.”

“Character is plot; plot is character.”

“We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel are interesting.”

“My specialty is raising dead characters.”

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”

“A novel is not an allegory... it is the sensual experience of another world.”

“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history.”

“An interesting fiction... is a sort of moral diagram.”

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”

“I'm not going on an adventure, you've got the wrong hobbit!”

“I think the crime novel is the great American novel.”