"A public is a necessary fiction."

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"Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"If you are writing fiction, think like a god. Release all the power of your imagination; create worlds and destroy them at your will, create as many miracles as your story needs."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Fiction, Writing, God, Imagination

"The beautiful illusion of fiction is that everything makes sense and that there was a purpose, that there was a point to it all. And that's the best possible lie because it may even be true."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Fiction, Illusion, Truth, Purpose

"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Fiction, Art, Imagination, Possibility, Reality

"But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Morality, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"You're much shorter than my mom.""Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle."That's no way to talk to a vampire.""Bloodsucking brat.""Better" he said."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

Fiction, Humor, Dialogue, Playfulness, Personality

"Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story, to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all."

Stephen King, American Author

Fiction, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Today

"Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Fiction, Adventure, Truth, Regret, Power

"The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song."

Jason Mraz, American Musician

Fiction, Song, Songs

"I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction."

Judith Krantz, American Novelist

Fiction, Fun, Writing, Years

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"Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing."

Age

"Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."

Health

"Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety."

Thought

"To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty."

Health

"The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament."

Life

"The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's."

God

"So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order."

Beauty

"Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."

Communication

"In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty."

Belief

"It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity."

God