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Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one,… — Piers Anthony
I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of… — Piers Anthony
I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was… — Tupac Shakur
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian… — Bertrand Russell
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an… — Rajneesh
Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."… — Swami Vivekananda
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to… — Nicholas Delbanco
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly… — Janet Morris
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. — Ulysses S. Grant
There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For… — J. D. Sedding
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work… — Steve Almond
I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of… — Stephen King
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… — Jim Rohn
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been… — Mary McCarthy
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not… — Samuel Johnson
I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report.… — George Carlin
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. — Thomas A. Edison
Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than… — Thomas Hood
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and… — Virginia Woolf
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong. — Martin Rees
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought.… — J M Coetzee
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. — Jean Baudrillard
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. — Thomas Carlyle

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