Horace Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Should Quotes

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Strong Quotes , Fiction Quotes

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Honest Quotes

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Men Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Men Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Truth Quotes , Fiction Quotes

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Purpose Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Fiction Quotes , World Quotes

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Facts Quotes

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

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Tags : Alaina Huffman Quotes , Technology Quotes , Fiction Quotes

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Literature Quotes

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Book Quotes , Fiction Quotes

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Memorable Quotes , Fiction Quotes

When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Fiction Quotes

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Requirements Quotes

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Doubt Quotes , Fiction Quotes

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Body Quotes

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Preference Quotes

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fiction Quotes , Problem Quotes