#fiction

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. ↗

— Yann Martel

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Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels. ↗

— John Mica

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My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible. ↗

— Steven Moffat

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I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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