"Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality."

Fiction, Reality, Imagination, Art

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"Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality."

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"Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Fiction, Literary

"If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Fiction, Writing, God, Imagination

"The beautiful illusion of fiction is that everything makes sense and that there was a purpose, that there was a point to it all. And that's the best possible lie because it may even be true."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Fiction, Illusion, Truth, Purpose

"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Fiction, Art, Imagination, Possibility, Reality

"But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Morality, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"You're much shorter than my mom.""Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle."That's no way to talk to a vampire.""Bloodsucking brat.""Better" he said."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

Fiction, Humor, Dialogue, Playfulness, Personality

"Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story, to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all."

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Today

"Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Adventure, Truth, Regret, Power

"She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and letting her glance fall naturally on a patch of earth which, if she had been in any decent narrative, should have contained the book.It didn't."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Hope, Romance, Magic, Discovery

"It all floats down here!"

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Fear, Mystery, Darkness, Horror

Explore more quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

Dream

"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."

Corruption

"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."

Existence

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

Paradise

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."

Nothing

"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic."

Art

"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."

Legacy

"I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology."

Philosophy

"There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations."

Literature

"I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is."

Self-Realization