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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction. — Oscar Wilde
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. — Hilma Wolitzer
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your… — Toni Morrison
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a… — Martin Parr
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone… — Richard Avedon
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details,… — Rohinton Mistry
What we remember is probably fiction anyway. — Beryl Bainbridge
Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they… — Havelock Ellis
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. — James Joyce
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have… — Charles Churchill
It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to… — Unknown Author
The average ground temperature of the Earth is impossible to measure since most of the Earth is ocean...So this average ground temperature is a fiction. — Freeman Dyson
Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can… — Desmond Tutu
Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying. — Stephen Hawking
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach. — Hunter S. Thompson
In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose… — Unknown Author
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction. — Scott Turow
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly… — Northrop Frye
I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And… — Gene Wolfe
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought… — Rebecca West
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak.… — Philip Roth
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. — Louis Auchincloss
There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my… — Albert Einstein
I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could… — Lauren F. Winner
I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life. — Lorin Stein

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