Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
-Simone Weil
Quotations
Fiction
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.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Writing fiction; there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
-Buddy Ebsen
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
-Scott Turow
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
-Mark Twain
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
-Jessamyn West
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
-Oscar Wilde
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
-Scott Turow
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
-Stephen King
