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| Skönlitteratur är som livet där allt det trista utelämnats. | Clive James (1939-) |
| Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens. | A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901-1991) |
| Fiction is an act of revenge | John Hawkes (1925-) |
| Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up. | Margaret Culkin Banning |
| Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. | Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-) |
| Fiction is the truth inside the lie. | Stephen King (1947-) |
| Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. | William Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life | Simone Weil (1909-1943) |
| 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 the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. | Jim Rohn |
| Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens. | A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901-1991) |
| The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. | Herman Wouk (1915-) |
| Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up. | Margaret Culkin Banning |
| When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction | John Gay (1685-1732) |
| Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Fiction is life with the dull bits left out | Clive James (1939-) |
| Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance | Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-) |
| Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. | Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-) |