Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
John CheeverTags: inspirational books writing on-fiction fiction
Imagination is a gift. Don't waste it!
Jeanne WarnesTags: on-fiction
In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.
Lauren GroffTags: writing on-fiction fiction
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
Doris LessingTags: truth on-fiction fiction storytelling truth-telling
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.
Orson Scott CardTags: morality literature on-fiction fiction
But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
Ken KeseyTags: on-fiction fictional-truth
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
Wilkie CollinsTags: inspirational writing on-fiction fiction storytelling
All stories are true. But some of them never happened.
James A. OwenTags: perspective stories on-fiction
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: sherlock-holmes on-fiction fiction baker-street chains-of-events commonplaces-of-existence cross-purposes outre-results plannings stale strange-coincidences unprofitable
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
David Foster WallaceTags: loneliness on-fiction fiction
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