“ Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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“ Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. ”
- J. G. Ballard- Copy
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“ Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. ”
- Philip K. Dick- Copy
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“ It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. ”
- Herman Wouk- Copy
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“ The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
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“ I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye. ”
- Jack Handy- Copy
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“ I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world. ”
- Mordecai Richler- Copy
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“ The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them. ”
- Richard Hughes- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of Twentieth Century. ”
- J. G. Ballard- Copy
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“ I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me. ”
- Lisa Alther- Copy
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