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Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard.

Ovid

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

Jean Baudrillard

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

Tom Clancy

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

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Paul Theroux

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Virginia Woolf

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

John Hersey

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Oscar Wilde

The State is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else

Frederic Bastiat

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Benjamin Disraeli

The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else

Frederic Bastiat

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

Lactantius

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

William Trevor

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

John Sladek

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Neil Gaiman

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Mark Twain

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

Jerry Pournelle

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Elizabeth Moon

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

Fred Saberhagen

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