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Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Oscar Wilde
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The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

Franklin P. Adams
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Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens. -A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
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Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Clive James
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Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain
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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -William Shakespeare
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What else are we living for, if not to create fiction? .

Saul Williams
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G. K. Chesterton
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Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. -Thomas A. Edison
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

Ian McKellen
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This is fiction and people should not forget that.

Steve Pontius
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. -Arthur Christopher Benson
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It is a work of fiction. It is a piece of entertainment.

James Mcteigue
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Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Louis Auchincloss
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. -Vincent Canby
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Any adult can distinguish reality from fiction. But you cannot expect a child to make proper judgements.

Marc Carroggio
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It's interesting that 10 or 15 years ago this was science fiction.

Stephen Kane
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I remember being a kid and reading all the dog books I could come across, both fiction and nonfiction. -Gail Toracinta
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It's really science fiction at its best.

Tracy Mcnamara
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Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract.

Joanne Dobson
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I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business. -Robert Reed
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I like science fiction and I read it a lot - if I were a collector, I would bid for his works.

David Anderson
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It's really comprehensive. I wasn't familiar with early science fiction. It's cool to see the roots of sci-fi.

Brian Anderson
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But in all that, I had not done an adaptation of classic Indiana fiction. -James Still
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I'm not a fan of science fiction, personally.

Lake Bell
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This is a record-breaking number for a work of non-fiction.

Sonny Mehta
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It's either someone impersonating them, or it's an utter work of fiction. -Andrew Kline
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The essential quagmire of this book is that on one hand, he tells everybody this is fiction; then on the other hand, he basically tells everybody this is fact.

Mike Stevens
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The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Reynolds Price
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We run into science fiction pretty quickly. Those guys get there before we do and then we have to go do it. -Vijay Saraswat
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