“Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.”
Dorothea Brande
“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
Mark Twain
“People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.”
John Cheever
“If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction.”
Rain Bojangles
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.”
Oscar Wilde
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
