40 Insightful Quotes About Fiction from Famous Writers-Storytellers!

A work of fiction, in writing or otherwise, is a creative concoction of characters, settings and scenarios which are all, but only illusory formations carved by the function of human mind called as ‘imagination’. Yet for most humans, storytelling forms the make-up of majority of our life’s time.

Stories!

These fabricated vistas, slapped with wodges of tremors, trepidations and sensations; trammeling with shams of ideas and waves of emotion lapping through…Stories are those quirks of tricks and lies, in the backdrop of which, lurks a still quietude of the emotional center that hums and rustles in the heartbeats of its truest readers and listeners.

Discover below, a collection dazzling with forty insightful quotations from some of the greatest writers-storytellers, on the topic of ‘fiction’. To read all of these in one go (with background music!) begin straight from the following video, or skip through this to read them one by one. Yowzers!

#1 Fiction is the truth inside the lie. – Stephen King

#2 Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. – Neil Gaiman

#3 Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. – Khaled Hosseini

#4 When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. – Steven Wright

#5 Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6 What I’m looking for is nothing but a touch of verisimilitude, like the handful of spices you chuck into a good spaghetti sauce to really finish her off. That sense of reality is important in any work of fiction, but I think it is particularly important in a story dealing with the abnormal or paranormal. – Stephen King

#7 Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. – Albert Camus

#8 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. - Tom Clancy

#9 This moment will just be another story someday. – Stephen Chbosky

#10 After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. – Philip Pullman

#11 The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. - Muriel Rukeyser

#12 The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

#13 Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. - Francis Bacon

#14 Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ― Arthur Conan Doyle

#15 There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. ― Doris May Lessing

#16 Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.” ― Patrick Ness

#17 Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. ― John Cheever

#18 Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. ― Hilary Mantel

#19 That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. ― Tim O'Brien

#20 Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. – Haruki Murakami

#21 Fiction is the truth, fool! – John Waters

#22 A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. ― Diane Setterfield

#23 Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. ― David Foster Wallace

#24 Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. ― Virginia Woolf

#25 Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. ― Gabriel García Márquez

#26 If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. ― Richard Bach

#27 The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who mock fiction do so because they fear the truth. ― Cassandra Clare

#28 Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different. – Neil Gaiman

#29 Escapist fiction is just that: fiction that opens a door, shows the sunlight outside, gives you a place to go where you are in control, are with people you want to be with(and books are real places, make no mistake about that); and more importantly, during your escape, books can also give you knowledge about the world and your predicament, give you weapons, give you armour: real things you can take back into your prison. Skills and knowledge and tools you can use to escape for real. – Neil Gaiman

#30 I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time. ― Diane Setterfield

#31 Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too. ― Nicole Christie

#32 Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. ― Michael Scott

#33 As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency. ― Slavoj Žižek

#34 It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. - Gao Xingjian

#35 Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. - Simone Weil

#36 Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. - William Blake

#37 It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Mark Twain

#38 Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. – Paul Theroux

#39 Beyond the fiction of the reality, there is the reality of the fiction. ― Slavoj Žižek

#40 Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else. – George Orwell

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34 Inspirational Chris Gardner Quotes from The Pursuit of Happyness!

The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 movie based on the life story of Chris Gardner, the American businessman and motivational speaker. The movie features Will Smith in the lead role and bubbles with heart-thumping sparks of inspiration soaked generously with depth of emotion. The movie is also the story of a man with simple-straightforward values and a heart full of big dreams. While the character of Chris struggles and strives ahead in pursuing happiness, he inspires his son to follow his dreams and learn to build a shield of ignorance towards what other people seem to say or think about him. Here are 34 beautiful and inspiring dialogues from the movie, most of these the words of real Chris Gardner. Breeze through and get inspired!

#1 Don’t ever let somebody tell you, you can’t do something, not even me. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.

#2 That’s smart. Make a list.

#3 It’s an I in happiness, and there is no Y.

#4 This is part of my life story.

#5 You know how mountains get moved? Everyone who can move a couple, move a couple. Those who can move rocks, move rocks. Those who can move boulders, move boulders. That’s how mountains get moved. If every one of us did everything we could, I believe we would be in a different world.

#6 It’s okay to fail; its not okay to quit.

#7 Claim ownership of your dreams.

#8 Always, always pursue happiness.

#9 I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

#10 You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry ain’t coming.

#11 Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others.

#12 The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

#13 Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.

#14 Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.

#15 Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don’t just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also the walk didn’t have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

#16 The world is your oyster. It’s upto you to find the pearls.

#17 Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your worth, who you really are, your degree that can go with you wherever you go, that you bring with you the moment you come into a room, that can’t be manipulated or shaken. Without that sense of self, no amount of paper, no pedigree, and no credentials can make you legit. No matter what, you have to feel legit inside first.

#18 The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn’t good enough, would be stilled.

#19 Martin Frohm: What would you say if man walked in here with no shirt, and I hired him? What would you say?

Chris: He must have had on some really nice pants!

#20 This part of my life... this part right here? This part is called 'being stupid.'

#21 This part of my life... this little part.... is called 'Happiness'.

#22 Because when I was young and I'd get an A on a history test or whatever... I'd get this good feeling about all the things I could be. And then I never became any of them.

#23 Christopher: Knock knock.

Chris: Who's there?

Christopher: Nobody.

Chris: Nobody who?

#24 Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.

#25 Can I say something? Um, I'm the type of person that if you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know.

#26 But I bet you what, I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer.

#27 The money thing will come. I know so many people who have so much more money than I. They are miserable. It is so important to be happy.

#28 My mom taught me from a very early age that I could do anything I wanted to do.

#29 Do something that you love. Whatever you're going to do is going to be tough enough. Find something that gets you so excited that the sun can't come up early enough in the morning because you want to go do your thing.

#30 The movie is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.

#31 I was homeless, but I wasn't hopeless. I knew a better day was coming.

#32 There is no plan B for passion.

#33 The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

#34 They all looked so damn happy to me. Why couldn’t I look like that?

47 Unforgettable Quotes from ALICE IN WONDERLAND!

ALICE

#1  “I’m sorry, but how can one possibly pay attention to a book with no pictures in it?”

#2 “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.”

#3 “Curiouser and curiouser!”

#4 “Oh dear, I do wish I hadn’t cried so much.”

#5 “When I get home I shall write a book about this place.”

#6 “It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”

#7 “But that’s just the trouble with me. I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”

#8 I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

#9 No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

#10              Mad Matter: ""Have I gone mad?""

Alice: ""I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are."

#11               Tweedledee: he is mad.

Alice: The Hatter? Yes, I know... That's his muchness. That's what makes him so... him!

Tweedledee: But he's grown darker. Less dafter.

Tweedledum: Denies himself laughter.

Cheshire Cat: And no scheme of ours can raise any sort of smile. We rather hoped you might help us save him.

#12               Hatter is my truest friend. If he's in need, I'll help him, no matter what.

#13               “When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

#14               "The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

#15               Sometimes I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Six impossible things. Count them Alice. One. There's a potion that can make you shrink. Two. And a cake that can make you grow. Three. Animals can talk. Four, Alice. Cats can disappear. Five. There's a place called Wonderland. Six. I can slay the Jabberwocky.

MAD HATTER

#16               "In a Wonderland they lie,

Dreaming as the days go by,

Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream-

Lingering in the golden gleam-

Life, what is it but a dream?"

#17               Mad Hatter: In the gardens of memory, in the palace of dreams, that is where you and I will meet.

Alice: But a dream isn't reality...

Mad Hatter: Who's to say which is which?

#18              "I've always wondered when soon is."

#19               There’s a place like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery and danger. Some say to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter, which luckily I am!

CHESHIRE CAT

#20              "You’ve been gone too long, Alice. There are matters which might benefit from your attention. Friends cannot be neglected."

#21               When the day becomes the night and the sky becomes the sea, When the clock strikes heavy and there's no time for tea. And in our darkest hour, before my final rhyme, she will come back home to Wonderland and turn back the hands of time.

#22               “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”

#23 Alice: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'

Cheshire Cat: "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to".

Alice: 'I don't much care where -' 
Cheshire Cat: 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.

Alice: '- so long as I get somewhere,' 

Cheshire Cat: 'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough."

#24              “I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours.”

#25              "Every adventure requires the first step."

#26              “When you’ve understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can’t understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.”

#27               “The proper order of things is often a mystery to me.”

#28              “The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die.”

#29              No one does play fair if they think they can get away with it.

#30             “I’m stranger. You’re stranger. Together, we are… strangers.”

#31               “We are all victims in-waiting.”

#32              “It’s always tea time.”

#33              Never let anyone drive you crazy.

#34              And let your need guide you're behaviour.

#35              I never get involved in politics.

WHITE QUEEN

#36              Alice, you cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours, because when you step out to face that creature, you will step out alone.

#37              I have vowed to never harm any living creature.

RED QUEEN

#38              “Sentence first—verdict afterwards.”

#39              “It is better to be feared than to be loved.”

#40             “Off with his head!”

TIME

#41               "Everyone parts with everything eventually my dear."

#42              Time is not money, nor is he your enemy!

#43              "The magnificent grand clock of all time. He is me and I am he. All of that was or ever shall be."

#44              "It is said that time is no man's friend, but I will remember you. Please don't come back."

#45              “Tick-tock your time is up!”

#46              I am time, the infinite, the eternal, the immortal, the immeasurable, unless you have a clock!

#47              No more wasting me!