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    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.

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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

by Stephen King Found in: Fiction Quotes,
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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.

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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.

by Tom Clancy Found in: Fiction Quotes,
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All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

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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.

by William Faulkner Found in: Fiction Quotes,
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

by Edward Albee Found in: Fiction Quotes,
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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.

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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.

by Philip Roth Found in: Fiction Quotes,
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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.

by V. S. Naipaul Found in: Fiction Quotes,
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