The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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 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.

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.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study read more

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.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life