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Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
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books
fiction
inspirational
on-fiction
writing
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John Cheever |
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
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epigram
happy-ending
on-fiction
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Oscar Wilde |
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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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on-fiction
storytelling
truth
truth-telling
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Doris May Lessing |
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.
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chains-of-events
commonplaces-of-existence
cross-purposes
fiction
on-fiction
outre-results
plannings
sherlock-holmes
stale
strange-coincidences
unprofitable
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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on-fiction
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Ken Kesey |
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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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fiction
on-fiction
stories
writing
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Diane Setterfield |
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Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.
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books
fiction
on-fiction
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John Green |
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The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool. In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins. I just wanted to make that clear before I begun.
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fiction
on-fiction
reality
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Darren Shan |
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
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inspiration
on-fiction
values
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Richard Bach |
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if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
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fantasy
fiction
humor
illusions
imaginary
imagination
on-fiction
reality
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Norton Juster |
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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fiction
gender
on-fiction
problems
women
women-writers
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Virginia Woolf |
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Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.
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on-fiction
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Daniel Keyes |
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Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.
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on-fiction
sookie-stackhouse
truth
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Charlaine Harris |
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"Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery."
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on-fiction
writing
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Joyce Carol Oates |
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All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?
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fiction
on-fiction
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Milan Kundera |
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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history
legends
on-fiction
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Victor Hugo |