1. La Ficción como Vía hacia la Verdad.
Este conjunto de citas explora la idea paradójica de que la ficción, a través de mentiras y artificios, puede revelar verdades más profundas y universales que los hechos por sí solos.
- “writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.” ― khaled hosseini.
- “fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” — albert camus.
- “in the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.” — lauren groff, the monsters of templeton.
- “truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”.
- 'fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives.' - abraham verghese, the covenant of water.
- “learning isn’t limited to information. Formation isn’t only achieved through propositions. Fiction helps us to feel the truth.”.
2. El Contraste entre Ficción y Realidad.
Estas reflexiones abordan la relación entre la ficción y la realidad, destacando cómo la ficción a menudo presenta un sentido y una coherencia que la vida real carece, sirviendo como un espejo o un refugio.
- “the trouble with fiction . Is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.” aldous huxley, writer, philosopher.
- Every day i think of that quote about how fiction is more realistic than reality because it has to follow logical rules, whereas reality. Well.
- “why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? fiction, after all, has to make sense.” - abraham lincoln.
- “when the world denies reality, fiction fills in, and its comforts become confrontations when you get too close.” .
- "the difference between fiction and reality? fiction has to make sense." — tom clancy.
- “.it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.” ― sarah caudwell, the sirens sang of murder.
3. El Imperativo Moral y la Necesidad de la Ficción.
Aquí se explora la ficción no solo como un entretenimiento, sino como una necesidad moral y una herramienta esencial para la humanidad, especialmente en tiempos de crisis y oscuridad.
- “when the facts of our lives can never be fully known there isn’t just room for fiction, there is a moral imperative for it. To write it. To paint it – to light a candle in the dark then pick up your pen or brush. Even, and especially, when the world is ending.”.
- "in times of sociopolitical chaos, when our governments are trying to gaslight us with one hand while committing atrocities with the other, i think it makes sense that so many of us turn to fiction to ground ourselves.".
- “the more chaotic our times, the deeper is our need to slow down and read fiction. In an age of anger and anxiety, clashing certainties, rising jingoism and populism, the division between “us” and “them” also deepens. The novel, however, dismantles dualities”.
- “the point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who mock fiction do so because they fear the truth.”.
- "the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist." hannah arendt.
4. El Arte y la Artesanía de Escribir Ficción.
Citas que profundizan en el proceso creativo y la naturaleza del oficio del escritor de ficción, desde la expresión de lo inefable hasta la conexión con la experiencia humana.
- “the artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.” the left hand of darkness — ursula k. Le guin.
- "fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction." - flannery o'connor.
- “the fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.” — j.g. Ballard, crash.
- "i'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system." flannery o'connor.
- “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” - virginia woolf, a room of one's own.
- “good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” e. L. Doctorow.