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Fiction Quotes

"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."
Jeff Bezos
"Valar Morghulis"
George R.R. Martin
"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."
Virginia Woolf
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
Mark Twain
"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery"
J.R.R. Tolkien
"It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction."
Larry David
"Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent."
Neil Gaiman
"Homo sapiens is the only species on Earth capable of imagining things that do not really exist."
Yuval Noah Harari
"In a story, you only had to wish you were somewhere, and you were there"
Ian McEwan
"Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise."
Philip Roth