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“I was one to fall for strangers, to live in fiction more than reality. I had created a perfect romantic and mysterious character for…

— Gaia B. Amman

“We've lost our ability to live with the secrets of the world. And yet there they are before us.”

— Paulo Coelho

“I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in…

— David Foster Wallace

“We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“We must find ourselves in fiction”

— Anonymous

“Fiction gives us the second chance that life denies us.”

— Paul Theroux

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“I have faith that the illusions we currently hold about who we are will not sustain us. I trust humanity will arrive at a…

— Amy McTear

“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

“I read for fun and to escape the mundaneness that is reality, to get lost in make-believe worlds where good always triumphs over evil.”

— Erica Cope

“Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.”

— Camilo Gomes Jr

“I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable…

— Robin McKinley