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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
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Truth, severe by fairy fiction drest.
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
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Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.
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We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer’s task is to invent the reality.
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men’s existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
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When I heard the word ‘stream’ uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn’t new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there’s Tristam Shandy, not to mention the Agamemnon.
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When I heard the word stream uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn’t new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there’s Tristam Shandy, not to mention the Agamemnon.
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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.
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Who would with care some happy fiction frame, so mimics truth it looks the very same.
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Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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With a tale, forsooth, he cometh to you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.
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Wondrous strong, are the spells of fiction.
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Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many people.
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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence — a lot passes you by — simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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You cannot be free if you are contained withing a fiction.
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