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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
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Milan Kundera
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All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
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Richard Hughes
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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Stephen King
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It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
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Aldous Huxley
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56 votes
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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Novels are longer than life.
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Natalie Clifford Barney
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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
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Italo Calvino
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Romances I never read like those I have seen.
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Lord Byron
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
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Oscar Wilde
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The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
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Robert Coover
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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Henry James
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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Andre Maurois
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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
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Henry James
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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E. L. Doctorow
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Gore Vidal
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