Fiction Quotes

Welcome to the world of fiction, where constraints are lifted and minds are set free. These are not just stories. They are alternate worlds, mirrors reflecting our inner selves, or perhaps windows through which we glimpse what could be. Here, we meet characters who never existed, live impossible adventures, and see truths from angles reality dares not offer.

It is both refuge and escape, and sometimes, a guide to our deepest truths. Here, we invite you to explore powerful quotes on the art of narrative, the sheer power of storytelling, and the enduring beauty of fictional worlds.

Quote by Theodore Roosevelt: There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need...
Quote by Ernest Hemingway: A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of oth...
Quote by Mark Twain: Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlie...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: The only real people are the people who never existed....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of th...
Quote by Virginia Woolf: The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feelin...
Quote by Gabriel García Márquez: Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late becaus...
Quote by Ernest Hemingway: If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that suc...
Quote by Virginia Woolf: Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all ...
Quote by John Updike: Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open se...
Quote by John Updike: The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer ...
Quote by Virginia Woolf: Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and di...
Quote by John Updike: The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction t...
Quote by Mark Twain: The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable....
Quote by Mark Twain: Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty....
Quote by Virginia Woolf: Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with ...
Quote by Barack Obama: Right around my first year of college - I remember
Quote by Mark Twain: Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs...
Quote by Ernest Hemingway: You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not ha...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures....
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first....
Quote by Mark Twain: Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?...
Quote by Hunter S. Thompson: Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is f...
Quote by Nicholas Sparks: While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which,...
Quote by Jonathan Swift: Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue...
Quote by Jim Rohn: The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l...
Quote by Mark Twain: Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you ...
Quote by John Updike: Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writ...
Quote by Mark Twain: It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents ...
Quote by John Updike: In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of ru...
Quote by John Updike: Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I...
Quote by Dave Barry: I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with...
Quote by Dave Barry: I read a lot of lot non-demanding fiction....
Quote by Ray Bradbury: Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense....
Quote by John Updike: Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me;...
Quote by Mark Twain: Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it....
Quote by Virginia Woolf: Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems....
Quote by Hunter S. Thompson: Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist....
Quote by Virginia Woolf: Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters si...
Quote by Virginia Woolf: The truer the facts the better the fiction....
Quote by Hunter S. Thompson: Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach....
Quote by Mark Twain: Truth is more of a stranger than fiction....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels the...
Quote by Ernest Hemingway: People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars....
Quote by Ray Bradbury: The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of ...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction....
Quote by Nicholas Sparks: Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories....
Quote by Ernest Hemingway: All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened....
Quote by John Updike: The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Ce...
Quote by John Updike: Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has...
Quote by H. L. Mencken: What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he shoul...
Quote by Virginia Woolf: ... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly...
Quote by Virginia Woolf: Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's li...
Quote by Mark Twain: The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be c...
Quote by Virginia Woolf: I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you....