#fiction

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#theology

Они, болваны, не давали ему читать, и он умер от голода. ↗

— Стругацкие

#sociology #sociology

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic. ↗

— Kim Young-ha

#on-fiction #pessimism #reality #pessimism

The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#art

Funny, they made this new genre called Speculative Fiction, I thought all fiction had always been speculative. ↗

— Teri Louise Kelly

#funny

Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room. ↗

— Karen Chance

#fiction #humor #romance #supernatural #humor

I’m thinking ahead, imagining what our lives together would be like once we’re free from this hell and allowed to live and let go. You know? Really let go of our pain and finally enjoy each other … you and me. ↗

— Leslie Lee Sanders

#dystopian-fiction #erotic-romance #gay #gay-romance #glbt-romance

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it." [Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2] ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#darkness #fiction #human #humanity #mankind

Don't leave home without your Wizer... it's an ugly world out there ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#home

Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride. ↗

— Ian Martin

#fiction #social-satire #south-africa #religion