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An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.
An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he read more
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.
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free read more
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be read more
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 is the truth inside the lie.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.