Quotes and sayings about tag  fiction

Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It’s apple pie and Mom’s homemade chicken soup. But you didn’t do badly, for a start.

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• Romance

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,How much would novels gain by the exchange!How differently the world would men behold!

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• Truth

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.

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• Writing

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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• Happiness

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

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• Writing

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

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• Books

Do you think we can be friends? I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. Probably not, but we can pretend.

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• Love

Riza: Without his Alchemy he's just...Jean: A little brat who swears a lotMaes: An arrogant pipsqueakRoy: Useless. Just uselessAlphonse: Sorry big brother, I don't know how to add to that...Ed *starts to cry*: YOU'RE ALL PICKING ON ME!!!

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• Humor

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

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• Truth

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

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• Writing

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

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• Truth

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

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• Truth

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

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• Inspirational

Dreams only come true if youpoint yourself in their direction

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• Romance

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

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• Books