"Most great works of the imagination were meant……" — Azar Nafisi

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• Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had… — Jonathan Franzen
• I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is… — Gore Vidal
• Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows… — Jerry B. Jenkins
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• Most fiction comes from your experience. — Susan Minot
• The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own… — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience… — Ernest Hemingway
• I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens… — Colm Toibin
• Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. — Jean Baudrillard