Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. Read Summary
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. Read Summary
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Read Summary
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. Read Summary
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. Read Summary
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. Read Summary
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. Read Summary
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Read Summary
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float. Read Summary
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew. Read Summary
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist. Read Summary
Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen. Read Summary
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce. Read Summary
Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary. Read Summary
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. Read Summary
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. Read Summary
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men. Read Summary
'Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don't know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you. Read Summary