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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.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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.
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 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 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.
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
