Fiction

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isnt.

- Mark Twain Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

- Franklin Pierce Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but this is because fiction is obliged to stick to probability truth is not.

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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

- Henry James Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.

- G. K. Chesterton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric -- and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

- Lord Byron Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

- Virginia Woolf Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction there's only narrative.

- L. Doctorow Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Victory is a political fiction.

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It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

- Albert Einstein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Fiction is a form of writing which reveals truths that reality obscures.

- Jessamyn West Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

- Oscar Wilde Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

- Mario Llosa Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

- Ralph Ellison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination ...

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

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Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.

- Wallace Stevens Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, And can only please by its resemblance.

- Shaftesbury III Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The difference between fiction and reality Fiction has to make sense.

- Tom Clancy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

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Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

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