On Fiction Quotes
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![Tim O'Brien](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1232136886i/2330._UY200_CR20,0,200,200_.jpg)
“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
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![Alan Moore](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1304944713i/3961._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
― V for Vendetta
― V for Vendetta
![J.R.R. Tolkien](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1648968349i/656983._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
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![David Foster Wallace](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615507112i/4339._UX200_CR0,2,200,200_.jpg)
“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”
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![John Cheever](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208899860i/7464._CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
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![Oscar Wilde](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1673611182i/3565._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
![Doris Lessing](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1457477725i/7728._UY200_CR2,0,200,200_.jpg)
“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
― UNDER MY SKIN--VOLUME ONE OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
― UNDER MY SKIN--VOLUME ONE OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
![Arthur Conan Doyle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1495008883i/2448._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
― The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
― The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
![John Waters](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1263397316i/17366._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.”
― Role Models
― Role Models
![Mary Ann Shaffer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1233257703i/1194527._CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
![Gabriel García Márquez](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588856705i/13450._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”
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![John Green](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1353452301i/1406384._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
![Flannery O'Connor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1469878767i/22694._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
![Richard Bach](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1420982726i/16904._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
![Darren Shan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1305767857i/5816._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool.
In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones.
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
I just wanted to make that clear before I begun.”
― Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare
In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones.
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
I just wanted to make that clear before I begun.”
― Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare
![Ursula K. Le Guin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1244291425i/874602._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.”
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![Norton Juster](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201117378i/214.jpg)
“if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
![Michael Scott](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1243251417i/27100._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
― The Warlock
― The Warlock
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