The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Quotations
Fiction
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
-Jessamyn West
All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
-Richard Hughes
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
-Simone Weil
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
-Scott Turow
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
-Stephen King
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
-Scott Turow
Writing fiction; there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
-Buddy Ebsen
Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.
-Frank Harris
