life on planet earth on Fiction

“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction . . . For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.