The best fiction is true.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.
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.
The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.
Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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...
Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a logical consistency, or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.
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...
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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...
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
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...
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
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.
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