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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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.
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.
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study read more
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
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.
