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Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Fiction is no longer a mere amusement; but transcendent genius, accommodating itself to the character of the age, has seized upon this province of literature, and turned fiction from a toy into a mighty engine. - William Ellery Channing The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. - Tom Clancy Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy. - Abraham Crowley Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece. - Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction. - John Dryden Every novel is a debtor to Homer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson I have often maintained that fiction may be much more instructive than real history. - John Foster (1) Who would with care some happy fiction frame, so mimics truth it looks the very same. - George Granville, Lord Landsdowne Truth, severe by fairy fiction drest. - Thomas Gray Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction. - William Hazlitt (1) If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. - Sir Arthur Helps Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) Fiction is the microscope of truth. - Alphonse de Lamartine Tales that have the rime of age. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Wondrous strong, are the spells of fiction. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself. - Thomas Babington Macaulay Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. - Sir James Mackintosh More strange than true, I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. - William Shakespeare With a tale, forsooth, he cometh to you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney), The Defense of Poesy An old novel has a history of its own. - Alexander Smith The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. *` * * They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change--that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out. - Robert Louis Stevenson Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. - Paul Theroux Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. - Archbishop Richard Whately Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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