top of page
.png){kind=small}
"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Fiction quotes
"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."
"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."
"Uh...are we going to talk about what just happened?" Victoria asked as Drake stepped over to Finn's desk to look at the map layout of the cemetery, seemingly calm about the fact that Bo and Nyx had just disappeared into thin air."
"Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."
"If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore."
"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic."
Explore more quotes by Raymond Queneau
"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."
"It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history."
"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."
"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."
"Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey."
"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."
bottom of page