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title: "18 Fiction Make Quotes by 18 authors"
description: "Browse 18 Fiction Make quotes by 18 authors. Discover the best Fiction Make sayings and thoughts."
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> [The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-clancy/the-difference-between-fiction-and-reality-fiction-has-to-make-sense/)

[Tom Clancy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-clancy/)

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> [I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gore-vidal/i-suspect-that-one-of-the-reasons-we-create-fiction-is-to-make-sex/)

[Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gore-vidal/)

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> [Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-michaels/real-life-isn-t-required-to-be-logical-but-fiction-has-to-make-sense/)

[Leigh Michaels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-michaels/)

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> [It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-no-wonder-that-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction-fiction-has-to/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-trouble-with-writing-fiction-is-that-it-has-to-make-sense-whereas/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-rosten/truth-is-stranger-than-fiction-fiction-has-to-make-sense/)

[Leo Rosten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-rosten/)

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> [I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-morpurgo/i-write-fiction-i-make-things-up-it-s-what-i-do/)

[Michael Morpurgo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-morpurgo/)

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> [Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-weil/imagination-and-fiction-make-up-more-than-three-quarters-of-our-real/)

[Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-weil/)

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> [I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/i-don-t-really-have-those-kinds-of-intentions-when-i-write-a-scene-i/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

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> [The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-strout/the-purpose-of-fiction-is-not-to-make-people-seem-nice-what-makes/)

[Elizabeth Strout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-strout/)

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> [“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/but-the-fact-is-that-new-york-is-as-much-a-myth-as-a-place-and/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [“And if publishers are too skittish to bite—sell it as goddamn fiction. Make yourself the author and change the names if necessary.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-v-scher/and-if-publishers-are-too-skittish-to-bite-sell-it-as-goddamn-fiction/)

[Joshua V. Scher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-v-scher/)

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> [There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-spinrad/there-is-only-one-definition-of-science-fiction-that-seems-to-make/)

[Norman Spinrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-spinrad/)

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> [“I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-bechdel/i-am-not-ultimately-interested-in-writing-fiction-i-can-t-make-things/)

[Alison Bechdel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-bechdel/)

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> [All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/all-my-novels-are-very-much-directly-related-to-my-inner-life-even/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

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> [In fiction you can make up everything to create the feeling. You can manufacture a story with whatever tools you want. With…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chelsea-martin/in-fiction-you-can-make-up-everything-to-create-the-feeling-you-can/)

[Chelsea Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chelsea-martin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34a/chelsea-martin-18667_emotion_in-fiction-you-can-make-up-everything-to_55503.jpg)

> [“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-allison/take-details-from-real-life-into-fiction-and-make-them-believable/)

[Dorothy Allison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-allison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d19/dorothy-allison-2041_books_take-details-from-real-life-into-fiction_1432031.png)

> [Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-bacon/truth-is-so-hard-to-tell-it-sometimes-needs-fiction-to-make-it/)

[Francis Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-bacon/)

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