Quotes on “fiction”

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.

No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.

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

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!!!

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

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

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!

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..

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

Raven?'Yes?'What do you believe in?'I believe in - finding out!

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

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

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.