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Results of search for Quote or Author: Fiction - Page 1 of 4 Showing results 1 to 10 of 36 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.: Herman Wouk (1915 - )
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?: Kelvin Throop III
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.: Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
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In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.: Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal
See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
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The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006

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