“Good fiction creates its own reality.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex
“That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?”
— Yann Martel, book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi
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