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

  John Hersey

  Writing, Opportunity, Giving

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

  Edward Albee

  Truth, Play, Facts

  The New York Times, September 18, 1966.

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• Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

  Ralph Ellison

  Real, Made, Difficult

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.56, Modern Library

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• The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Humanity, Doctrine

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

  Clive James

  Wisdom, Dull, Classic

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• Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Drama, Cutting, Epic

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• Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

  Mira Nair

  Peculiar, Life Is, Truth Is

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• Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

  Brian Aldiss

  Science, Ghost Stories, Scientist

  1961 Penguin Science Fiction, introduction.

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• There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

  Ken Follett

  Real, Connections, Real Connection

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• I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

  Peter Benchley

  Thinking, Influence, Non Fiction

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• I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

  Antonia Fraser

  Real, Interesting, Historical

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• A public is a necessary fiction.

  Rowan Williams

  "This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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• Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

  Stephen King

  Life, Beautiful, Truth

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

  Martin Amis

  Evil, Addiction, Mind

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Aug 02, 2011

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• I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

  Alain de Botton

  Writing, Uncomfortable, Novel

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Biographies, Why Not, Economy

  1980 In the NewYork Times, 27 Jul.

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• Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Keys, Imagination

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.80, A&C Black

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• Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

  Doris Lessing

  Time, Space, Dialect

  The Guardian (London), November 7, 1988.

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• I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

  Audre Lorde

  Gay, Numbers, Issues

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

  Richard Russo

  Thinking, Easier, Aspect

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• I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Thinking, Watches, Hard

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

  Herman Wouk

  Book, Income, Taxation

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• One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Pain, Future, Science

  "The Making of Kubrick's 2001". Book by Jerome Agel, 1970.

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• I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

  James Joyce

  Birthday, Mother, Children

  James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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