68 Quotes About On-fiction

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

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

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

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.

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

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.