Quotations
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
View quotes by J G Ballard
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.
View quotes by Jim Rohn
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
View quotes by Tom Clancy
As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non-fiction-histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts.
View quotes by Dan Brown
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
View quotes by Isaac Asimov
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
View quotes by Jean Baudrillard
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
View quotes by Stephen King
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
You cannot be free if you are contained withing a fiction.
View quotes by Julian Beck
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
View quotes by Lord Byron
I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction
View quotes by Ovid
75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.
View quotes by Glen Hoddle
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
View quotes by Ivana Trump
May I try some of your tasty beverage?(Pulp Fiction)
View quotes by Samuel L Jackson
The boundary between philosophy and fiction is not as clear cut as you may think and the two definitely interact.
View quotes by Ken Follet
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures
View quotes by Jessamyn West
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
View quotes by Virginia Woolf
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
View quotes by William Hurt
I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems [of death]
View quotes by Clive Barker
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
View quotes by Aneurin Bevan
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