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75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.
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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes fiction.
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Addison acknowledged that he would rather inform than divert his reader; but he recollected that a man must be familiar with wisdom before he willingly enters on Seneca and Epictetus. Fiction allures him to the severe task by a gayer preface. Embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
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All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than-accepted fiction.
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Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. And what are you reading, Miss — -? Oh! it is only a novel! replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
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An old novel has a history of its own.
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As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non-fiction-histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts.
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But I hate things all fiction… there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric — and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
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By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
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By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State’s crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.
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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left
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Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
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Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ideals, of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.
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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.
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