Ruthven - Fiction

Famous quotes containing the word fiction:

“For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.”
—Coleman Dowell (1925–1985)