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Lily King

Author

“I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.”

People Reading Fiction

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John Green

Author, YouTuber

“Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.”

Lying Hands Fiction

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Jeaniene Frost

Author

“One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.”

Fiction My Favorite

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Joseph Conrad

Novelist, Short Story Writer

“Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.”

Humans Fiction

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.”

People Truth Fiction

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.”

Loss Fiction

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Julian Barnes

Author

“But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.”

Fiction Advantage

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Jonathan Swift

Satirist, Writer

“Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.”

Fiction Shining Poet

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Jorge Luis Borges

Writer, Poet

“In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.”

Men Fiction Alternatives

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.”

People Done Fiction

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“These novels [Zombie, My Sister, My Love] are so special to me. [I don't expect that they will have nearly the same significance to anyone else.] They represent a kind of fiction I would love to pursue more or less constantly, but dare not.”

Special Fiction Zombie

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Joyce Carol Oates

Author, Poet

“I feel akin to [William] Shakespeare in the sense that, as I see it, he lived to dramatize the unfailingly exciting, unfathomably strange interplay among human beings that constitutes "scenes" in his plays, and constitutes "story" in prose fiction.”

Play Stories Fiction

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