Paul Park Quotes

In a way, metafiction breaks down the story and makes it less real. But in another respect, by that very breaking down, it actually makes things feel more real than they would to begin with.

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it.

My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

Some stories are true that never happened.

All of business and all of politics is essentially fiction to those who live them. I have more experience with fiction than most senators because I do it all day, so their world didn't seem that foreign to me.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

True stories are way more interesting.

When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the same strength and power of the real ones, and the line between them is completely blurred.

There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course.

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects