Beats Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

— Dean Koontz

“Once in a while, when reality is too painful to bear, fiction can help us to restore the fragility of our human condition.”

— Frances Stead Stellers

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction—so we are told. Therefore”

— Virginia Woolf

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.”

— Virginia Wolff

“It doesn’t matter that these are works of fiction and hence less scientific than the numbers and reports. They describe a human experience and…

— Christian Madsbjerg

“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and troubled many…

— Anonymous

“Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented. Reality needs none of the above.”

— Manoj Vaz

“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your…

— Cassandra Clare

“A novelist is a doctor who sees only terminal cases.”

— John Irving

“Fiction is only fiction because it is yet to be proven.”

— Robert M. Roberts

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“Fiction is truth not limited by facts.”

— Peter Maughan