Fiction quotes

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◆ You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

- Richelle Mead100

◆ I got expelled from the public library for putting all the 'Women's Rights' books in the fiction section.

- 100

◆ 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.

- Margaret Culkin Banning99

◆ Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez99

◆ The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

- Herman Wouk99

◆ Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life

- Simone Weil99

◆ Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

- Stephen King99

◆ It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

- Nancy Thayer99

◆ Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

- Roald Dahl99

◆ Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

- Dorothy Allison99

◆ Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

- Diana Ossana99

◆ The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author.

- Stuart Taylor99

◆ Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance

- Anthony Ashley Cooper99

◆ It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

- Mark Twain99

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

- Oscar Wilde99