“Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.”
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
“The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.”
— Isaac Asimov, book Fact and Fancy
Fact and Fancy (1962), p. 11
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