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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

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Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do. ↗

— George Saintsbury

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If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. ↗

— William Gass

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Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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