
The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing – and everything – about it is real.
– Todd Strasser
Related Quotes:
- Why do we believe one stranger and not another? – Todd Strasser
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. – Richard Bunning
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history – Iain Banks
- If contemporary literary fiction doesn’t read a bit like science fiction then it’s probably not all that contemporary, is it – Warren Ellis
- Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- what’s real within the story is real within the story – Jo Walton
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction. – AE Samaan
- General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. – Marvin Minsky
- My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all. – Yann Martel
- When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Christian Fiction is like a parable. The story is made up, but the truth is brought to life. Enjoy the story, but savor the truth. – Mary Ann Brantley
- Everything is light, everything is warmth, everything is electricity, everything is a magnetic field, everything is you. – LH
- Reading doesn’t mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read. – Amit Kalantri
- Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting? – LHandLG
- Everything, as Peyman said, may be a fiction -“ but the Future is the biggest shaggy-dog story of all. – Tom McCarthy
- There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work. – Nick Cave
- Soon would come the night in which there was no more work -“ not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart. – Paul Russell
- Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- This is a work of fiction, and the people in it are fictitious. The ghosts are real. – Nathaniel Benchley
- When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose. – John Kuypers
- Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move. – Richelle E Goodrich
- The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
- It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough. – Dejan Stojanovic
- The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. – Mark Twain
- When you write a story you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story. – Stephen King
- I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself. – AD Posey
- The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
- The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don’t let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. – Unarine Ramaru
- After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn. – Marty Rubin
- The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read. – Austin Kleon
- The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody. – Brian Joyce
- You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock. – Harold Bloom
- And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
- I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I’m supposed to take when I one day leave this house. – Eve Ensler
- He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all. – Laini Taylor
- Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. – Richard Brookhiser
