"I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction."

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"I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction."

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"I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it."

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

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"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

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

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Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

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"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

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"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

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"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

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