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Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!

Lord Byron

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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G.K. Chesterton

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Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

Kim Young-ha

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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Michael Cunningham

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I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

J.R.R. Tolkien

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The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

Todd Strasser

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There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.

Flannery O'Connor

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

Oscar Wilde

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A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

Phyllis A. Whitney

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