Meta Fiction Quotes

#1. I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at meta-fiction. Think of all the best Phillip K. Dick stories, where you experience a sort of dislocation, and suddenly what you think you've been reading is, in fact, something else entirely.

Paul Park

#2. Bunce films them. So Joey who came out of one porn film would go into another. It could fuck up the whole space-time continuum. They could prosecute us."
"For?"
"Meta-fiction in the first degree?

David Pratt

#3. Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.

Paul Park

#4. Absence makes the dick grow fonder, isn't that what they say?

Tara Sivec

#5. Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

Deepak Chopra

#6. It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

Plutarch

#7. Although unavailable for analysis the moment it happens, being struck a violent blow on the head is a very interesting experience.

Michael Cisco

#8. Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.

Robert McCrum

#9. How do you find a buried city in a vast landscape? Finding it randomly would be the equivalent of locating a needle in a haystack, blindfolded, wearing baseball mitts.

Sarah Parcak

#10. I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

Noah Baumbach

#11. Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

Joseph Campbell

#12. If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

Lisa Cholodenko

#13. In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.

Virgilia Peterson

#14. They do think the world is some kind of science-fiction novel, then. Do you realize how fervently most people will believe in the promises of technology, even when those promises fly in the face of common sense?

Dexter Palmer