Fiction quotes and words of wisdom

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
The Bible


"It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State."
Albert Einstein


"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."
Benjamin Disraeli


"ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer"s thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination ..."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary."
Franklin Pierce Adams


"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
Tom Clancy


"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."
Oscar Wilde


"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn?t."
Mark Twain


"Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, And can only please by its resemblance."
Shaftesbury III


"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton


"Victory is a political fiction."
Unknown


Interesting Quotes

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.Charles de Montesquieu - French lawyer & philosopher (1689 - 1755)

Catch 22Joseph Heller - US novelist (1923 - )