Quotes and sayings about tag  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..

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• Humor

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

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

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• Happiness

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

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• Books

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

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• Truth

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

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• Truth

Dreams only come true if youpoint yourself in their direction

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• Romance

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

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

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• Writing

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

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

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

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• Truth

Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space.

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• Humor

Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.

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• Romance