#fiction

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#as far as #between #call #concerned #dictionary

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#bloodless #details #fictional #fine #fine line

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie. ↗

— Berenice Marlohe

#fan #fiction #i #lights #like

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#because #been #day #days #fiction

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#believe #commitment #contrast #difference #entire

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#autobiographical #becomes #fiction #talent #true

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#science-fiction #life

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#explains #fictional #itself #unlike

There’s always time for arguin’ when you’re a Fuentes. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#humour #romance #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #funny

The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful. ↗

— Kathleen McGowan

#fiction #beauty