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H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science-Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells" · Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction · Quentin Tarantino, Referring to the movie Pulp Fiction · Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. – Mark Twain
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. – Stanley Kubrick
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. – Malcom Forbes
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. – Thomas Edison
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything. – Ivana Trump
Gabriel Well...life is stranger than fiction sometimes. – Swordfish
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. – Oscar Wilde
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. – William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. – Simone Weil
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras. – Tom Nolan
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. – Herman Wouk
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists – Kelvin III Throop
It's never too late -- in fiction or in life -- to revise. – Nancy Thayer
It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise. – Nancy Thayer
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. – G. K. Chesterton
Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity. – G. K. Chesterton
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. – G. K. Chesterton, Defendant (1901)
Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. 'I guess you're not an afictionado',' she said. Poor Marta. For all her reading, she doesn't even know the right word. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. – Arthur C. Clarke
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. – Franklin P. Adams
The difference between fiction and reality Fiction has to make sense. – Tom Clancy
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. – Frank Herbert
The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle. – Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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