Fiction Vs Reality Quotes

“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
― Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith

“Fiction is the best kind of reality”
― Isabel Bandeira, Bookishly Ever After

“If you make fiction just as valuable as reality, then any reality you don't need can be a delusion”
― Ryohgo Narita

“Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“One thing about writing this much… her brain never really shifted out of The World of Mages. When she sat down to write, she didn't have to wade back into the story slowly, waiting to get used to the temperature. She was just there, all the time. All day. Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“El pueblo llano, cuando reza, pide lluvia, hijos sanos y un verano que no acabe jamás -replicó Ser Jorah-. No les importa que los grandes señores jueguen a su juego de tronos, mientras a ellos los dejen en paz. Pero nunca los dejan en paz.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Who makes things up? Who tells the real story? We all turn our lives into stories. It is a defining characteristic of our species. We retell our experiences. We quickly learn what parts are interesting to our listeners and what parts lag, and we shape our narratives accordingly. It doesn't mean we aren't telling the truth; we've simply learned which parts to leave out. Every time we tell the story again, we don't go back to the original event and start from scratch, we go back to the last time we told the story. It's the story we shape and improve on, we don't change what happened. This is also a way we have of protecting ourselves. It would be too painful to relive a childhood illness or the death of your best friend every time you had to speak of it. By telling the story from the story, instead of from the actual events, we are able to distance ourselves from our suffering. It also gives us the chance to make the story something people can hear.”
― Ann Patchett

“Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know what is real and what is fiction. And I like that because reality is relative.”
― Nuno Roque

“Sometimes fiction was so powerful that it even had reverberations in the real world. When I went to London with Louise and Paul, we visited Sherlock Holmes' house. Tourists from all over the world were there to see this house. But Sherlock Holmes never existed. Yet people come to see his typewriter, his magnifying glass, his deerstalker, his furniture, his interior, in a reconstruction based on Conan Doyle's novels. People know this, yet they queue up and pay to visit a house that is just a meticulous recreation of a fiction.”
― Delphine de Vigan, D'après une histoire vraie

“Sometimes even a monster is no monster. Sometimes it's beautiful and we fall in love with all that story, more than any film or TV program could ever hope to provide. Even after a thousand pages we don't want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people who live there.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“His suffering was no more real than he was.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“It was a fictional story, but like any good fiction, without the need to adjust or conceal the truth, it actually might be
the greatest expression of truth.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Circle of Betrayal

“In your Mind you live with n number of characters”
― Tushar Saxena

“Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Murder is something you read about, listen to on a wireless, see at the pictures, discover in print every Sunday morning when you open your newspaper. But you never come across in your own everyday life.
It happens to other people, maybe in other districts, but it doesn't happen in your family, or among your neighbours, or down your street.”
― Molly Lefebure

“Books were another form of fog, dipping down to infiltrate and insidiously undermine the authoritative, official version, showing it up for the sham it was. He knew the stories were all made up, the characters puppets, the outcome predetermined, so why did they seem more real than reality? And why was no one else shocked by this gleeful scandal?”
― Michael Dibdin, Medusa

“I think in fiction he searches for the life he wishes he had.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Spellkeeper

“In order to write about real people - parents, children, lovers, friends, enemies, brothers, uncles, or the occasional passerby - it is necessary to make them fictional. I believe this is the only way of breathing life into them. To remember is to look around, again and again, equally astonished every time.”
― Linn Ullmann, Unquiet

“In the stories, there's always an answer at the end. Resolution. The detective confronts the killer; the killer admits it. We know for sure. But out here - it's not like that. Out here, maybe somebody goes to jail. Maybe somebody doesn't. But we never know the truth. The real, whole, definite truth. It's impossible.”
― Graham Moore, The Holdout

“Today, I wanted to be a bit aggressive and sexy . . . to be a provoking woman who remains a ghost in the hearts of men, so vivid that they could never forget. And this ghost shines with different colours in their imagination every time . . . I have always been good at being a muse. I adored this role and have always kept improving this image.”
― Mariia Manko, Through the Magic Sunglasses

“The Trump administration would do well to hire some fiction writers. Those of us who write horror are the cons. Those writing any other genre are the pros. Either way, we know how the story will end.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“Fantasy and Responsibility (The Sonnet)

Fantasy is good so long as it doesn't make us,
Oblivious to our responsibility of reality.
Imagination expands the mind for sure,
Only when it empowers our acts of accountability.
Growing up in India, I did not have superman,
But I did indulge religiously in some shaktimaan.
I don't know whether it influenced my making,
But it sure did fill my childhood with fascination.
People draw inspiration from different places,
That's a normal tenet of the mind, not a violation.
But inspiration is inspiration only when it leads,
To collective uplift, otherwise it's just delusion.
Fantasy is healthy when practiced with moderation.
Too much fiction paralyzes responsibility and reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Fantasy is healthy when practiced with moderation. Too much fiction paralyzes responsibility and reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans