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Fiction Quotes

"Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life"

"I've always been a reader of science fiction, and fantasy."

"Homo sapiens is the only species on Earth capable of imagining things that do not really exist."

"You should never trust a storyteller; only trust the story"

"I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going"

"Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."

"Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale."

"Reality is not always probable or likely."

"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."

"Books are the perfect entertainment"

"Some stories are true that never happened."

"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary is that it be interesting."

"It is the tale, not he who tells it"

"Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."

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