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.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

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.

Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be read more

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.

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.

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.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.