Fiction Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Fiction is Truth’s elder sister
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)British author
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent substantial and significant creatures of fiction than With irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British author
The novel, if it be anything, is contemporary history, an exact and complete reproduction of social surroundings of the age we live in.
George Moore (1852-1933) Irish author
In the true novel, as opposed to reportage and chronicle, the main action takes place inside the characters skull and ribs.
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) British author
Generally speaking people are plagued with problems that they are unable to solve. To escape them they pick up a detective story, become completely absorbed, help bring the investigation to a successful conclusion, switch off the light and go to sleep.
Erie Stanley Gardner (1899-1970) American author
The thriller is an extension of the fairy tale. It is melodrama so embellished as to create the illusion that the story being told, however unlikely, could be true.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) American author
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin R Adams (1881-1960) American journalist, humorist
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Italian playwright
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V. S. Pritchett (b. 1900) British writer, critic
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
