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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
-Jessamyn West (American author)
"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
-Jessamyn West (American author)
Headlines...by Abe Burns
Fiction, even of the most "realistic" kind, represents what never happened, what isn't, but what maybe yet could be, in a different world than this. It's always moving in opposition to reality. All art is motion, and in motion. A good story goes in a direction that we were unable, previously, to see.
Lyta Gold • Dangerous Fictions
it may be art but it’s also a fact.
Ann Patchett • These Precious Days: Essays
Truth is what literature is about: the conviction that through words, not just any words but the right words, and whatever else accompanies them, I might reach the essence of things.
Phillip Lopate • Writers and Their Notebooks
“the best of fiction is literally false but symbolically true. It uses made-up people and non-existent events to explore and understand eternal questions that haunt the hearts of men. Great fiction uses lies to get to the truth, and it’s this truth that people are after.”
— Hit Reverse: New Ideas From Old Books by Jash Dholani
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— Hit Reverse: New Ideas From Old Books by Jash Dholani
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