Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the sam...
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the found...
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for unders...
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.
The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my n...
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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