fiction

reality

dad joke

Bible

library

one-liner

nonsense question

Civil War

nonfiction writing

science fiction

fan fiction

fiction writing

alternate history

fault

flaw

empathy

creative writing

coping mechanism

is a necessity... literature is a luxury.

Literature is a luxury... fiction is a necessity.

is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced. Dan Chaon

is a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of beign a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.

is a world of freedom in which, if you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

is concerned with what it is to be a human being.

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

is an art honed by reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction. F. Scott Fitzgerald

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy. James Joyce

is differentiated from reality in that fiction needs to be credible.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible. Mark Twain

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