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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.
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.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of read more
A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.
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.
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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.
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.
