I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.
Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.
They weren't true stories; they were better than that.
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
The stories I create are never as awful as reality.
From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.
Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.
I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.
I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'
There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.
I like feel-good fiction and mysteries.
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.
Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.
I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.
Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.
Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., whose youthful dreams of being a successful Hollywood screenwriter never materialized, is proving to the world that he does indeed have a talent for concocting fictional stories.
So many of my songs are based on things that either happened to me or to someone I know, but there are also ones where I've written a made-up story. All of them are about very real emotions, and I just find different ways to express them.
The good romances are as good as anything.
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.
While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!
So far, everything I've worked on has been deeply connected to reality. I'm not constitutionally opposed to working on something completely fictional, either. It just happens that a lot of these stories have crossed my path in a way that makes them intriguing, but I'm up for anything that's intellectually engaging.
