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Fiction is Truth’s elder sister.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) British author.
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
W.Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British author.
The novel if it be anything, is contemporary history, an exact and complete reproduction of social surroundings of the age we live in.
George Moore (1852-1933) Irish author.
In the true novel as opposed to reportage and chronicle the main action takes place inside the characters skull and ribs.
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) British author.
Generally speaking people are plagued with problems that they are unable to solve. To escape them they pick up a detective story, become completely absorbed, help bring the investigation to a successful conclusion, switch off the light and go to sleep.
Erle Stanley Gardner (1899-1970) American author.
The thriller is an extension of the fairy tale. It is melodrama so embellished as to create the illusion that the story being told, however unlikely could be true.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) American author.
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin P.Adams ( 1881-1960) American journalist, humorist.
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Italian playwright.
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V.S.Pritchett (b.1900) British writer, critic.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo – Irish author.
Man is a poetical animal and delights in fiction.
Hazlitt.
Fiction allures to the severe task by a gayer preface. Embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
Willmott.
I have often maintained that fiction may be much more instructive than real history.
John Foster.
Every fiction that has ever laid strong hold on human belief is the mistaken image of some great truth.
Martineau.
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.
Channing.
The most influential books and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, rearrange, and clarify the lessons of life, disengage us from ourselves, constrain us to the acquaintance of others, and show us the web of experience, but with a single change. The monstrous, consuming ego of ours struck out.
R.L.Stevenson.
The best histories may sometimes be those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy, but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected, but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.
Macaulay.
Fiction is not falsehood, as some seem to think. It is rather the fanciful and dramatic grouping of real traits around imaginary scenes or characters. It may give false views of men or things, or it may, in the hands of a master, more truthfully portray life than sober history itself.
Tryon Edwards.
Those who delight in the study of human nature, may improve in the knowledge of it, and in the profitable application of it by the perusal of the best selected fictions.
Whately.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) British author.
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
W.Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British author.
The novel if it be anything, is contemporary history, an exact and complete reproduction of social surroundings of the age we live in.
George Moore (1852-1933) Irish author.
In the true novel as opposed to reportage and chronicle the main action takes place inside the characters skull and ribs.
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) British author.
Generally speaking people are plagued with problems that they are unable to solve. To escape them they pick up a detective story, become completely absorbed, help bring the investigation to a successful conclusion, switch off the light and go to sleep.
Erle Stanley Gardner (1899-1970) American author.
The thriller is an extension of the fairy tale. It is melodrama so embellished as to create the illusion that the story being told, however unlikely could be true.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) American author.
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin P.Adams ( 1881-1960) American journalist, humorist.
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Italian playwright.
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
V.S.Pritchett (b.1900) British writer, critic.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo – Irish author.
Man is a poetical animal and delights in fiction.
Hazlitt.
Fiction allures to the severe task by a gayer preface. Embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
Willmott.
I have often maintained that fiction may be much more instructive than real history.
John Foster.
Every fiction that has ever laid strong hold on human belief is the mistaken image of some great truth.
Martineau.
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.
Channing.
The most influential books and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, rearrange, and clarify the lessons of life, disengage us from ourselves, constrain us to the acquaintance of others, and show us the web of experience, but with a single change. The monstrous, consuming ego of ours struck out.
R.L.Stevenson.
The best histories may sometimes be those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy, but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected, but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.
Macaulay.
Fiction is not falsehood, as some seem to think. It is rather the fanciful and dramatic grouping of real traits around imaginary scenes or characters. It may give false views of men or things, or it may, in the hands of a master, more truthfully portray life than sober history itself.
Tryon Edwards.
Those who delight in the study of human nature, may improve in the knowledge of it, and in the profitable application of it by the perusal of the best selected fictions.
Whately.
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