68 Quotes About On-fiction
- Author Tim O'Brien
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A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
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- Author Lauren Groff
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In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.
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- Author 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.
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- Author Joyce Carol Oates
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Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.
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- Author Wilkie Collins
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I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
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- Author S.A. Reid
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There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.
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- Author Ted Conover
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...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.
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- Author Simone Elkeles
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But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.
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- Author G.K. Chesterton
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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