Quotes About Metafiction

#1. If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

David Foster Wallace

#2. For Metafiction, in its ascendant and most important phases, was really nothing more than a single-order expansion of its own great theoretical nemisis, Realism: if realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see.

David Foster Wallace

#3. I usually see the word "metafiction" applied to works that draw attention to their own devices, their own artificiality, in order to mock novelistic convention and show the impossibility of capturing a reality external to the text or whatever.

Ben Lerner

#4. But every time we read a new version of the Arthurian legend, we must compare, contrast, and recreate our image of the characters: each new version is, in a sense, metafiction

Ann F. Howey

#5. Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.

Robert Coover

#6. It is the ultimate metafictional act, not homicide but suicide. (Wallace would say that one of the problems of metafiction is that there is no difference.)

D.T. Max

#7. Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

Sam Kean

#8. Why would an eye want to form?

William Peter Blatty

#9. Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

Melissa Etheridge

#10. The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.

Sol Luckman

#11. It was one of those perfect Autumn days so common in stories and rare in the real world.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. Home. The word circled comfortably in my mouth like bubble gum, swished around sweetly soft and satisfying. Home. Try saying it aloud to yourself. Home. Isn't it like taking a bite of something lovely? If only we could eat words.

Sol Luckman

#13. A story always ends just when it comes to an end. Like a breath.

Leonie Swann

#14. Apparently, faith in life is one thing and faith in literature is another.

Gerald Weaver

#15. Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

Heinrich Heine

#16. The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it.

Meena Kandasamy

#17. Try it before you doubt it, because it might just be for you

Rayvon L. Browne

#18. He decided to re-read his story from the beginning. As he read he felt as if he was falling forwards into the blank, white spaces of the screen, and the words faded from his consciousness to be replaced completely by the things that they described.

K. Valisumbra

#19. it makes medical error the third leading cause of death in the United States today, just behind heart disease and cancer.

Leslie Michelson

#20. Two whores who finally found something to mother. A guy could write a book about it, he thought bitterly, call it From Hair To Maternity. It would probly be a very long book. Whores did not produce as fast as rabbits.

James Jones

#21. The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice.

Thomas Paine

#22. I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

Tony Campolo

#23. The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.

Ashim Shanker

#24. Conchpore is real. It is as real as Malgudi, Brahmpur, Lilliput or Macondo. And also as real as San Francisco, Madurai, Edinburgh, Gaborone or Tokyo. You know that fictional towns exist. You visit them all the time.

Indu Muralidharan

#25. An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

Socrates

#26. How is your father?" she asks disinterestedly.
"A contrivance," I mutter. "A plot device.

Bret Easton Ellis

#27. I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

Armistead Maupin

#28. Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I'm not lonely, if that's what it seems like. Always writing things down.

Chris Campanioni

#29. Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world.

Alan Moore

#30. Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

Henry Rollins

#31. One morning, some weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea - but why always Dorothea? Was her point of view the only possible one with regard to this marriage?

George Eliot