A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

Tim O'Brien

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A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.

Tim O'Brien

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Dr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted.

Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?

Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes.

Zach Helm

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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Benjamin Disraeli

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When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.

Jodi Picoult

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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini

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Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.

Miriam Toews

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Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

William H. Gass

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It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

William H. Gass

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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Herman Wouk

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