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  1. Doris May Lessing _ Under My Skin: Volume One of

    There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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  2. Daniel Keyes _ Flowers for Algernon

    Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together."
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  3. Victor Hugo _ Ninety-Three

    History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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  4. Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth

    if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
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  5. Virginia Woolf _ A Room of One's Own

    Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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  6. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Complete Adventures of

    Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.
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  7. Joyce Carol Oates _ The Journal of Joyce Carol

    Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.
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  8. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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  9. Milan Kundera _ The Art of the Novel

    All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?
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  10. Darren Shan _ A Living Nightmare

    The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool.In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins. I just wanted to make that clear before I begun.
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