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Fiction

«Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.»
Author: A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (Novelist) | About: Fiction | Keywords: agreement, musings
«Fiction is life with the dull bits left out»
Author: Clive James (Critic) | About: Fiction | Keywords: bits, Left Out
«Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.»
Author: Diana Ossana | About: Emotion, Fiction, Truth
«Fiction is an act of revenge»
Author: John Hawkes | About: Fiction
«Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.»
«Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.»
«Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.»
«Fiction is the truth inside the lie.»
Author: Stephen King (Writer) | About: Fiction | Keywords: fiction, Inside the
«A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.»
«Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.»