Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter
The Twilight Zone, "The Fugitive" (1962).
The Twilight Zone
“Strange reading? It is meant to be. The world is full of romantic, macabre, improbable things which would never do in works of fiction.”
Scraps and Morsels (1960).
Context: Strange reading? It is meant to be. The world is full of romantic, macabre, improbable things which would never do in works of fiction. When those that come within one man's notice are gathered together in a scrapbook, they tell of a world which sobersided folk may not choose to recognize as their own. But it is their own; I have the evidence.
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George Raymond Richard Martin (1948) American writer, screenwriter and television producer
Interview with Weird Tales (24 May 2007) http://weirdtales.net/wordpress/2007/05/24/george-rr-martin-on-magic-vs-science/ <br class="br">Context: I think that for science fiction, fantasy, and even horror to some extent, the differences are skin-deep. I know there are elements in the field, particularly in science fiction, who feel that the differences are very profound, but I do not agree with that analysis. I think for me it is a matter of the furnishings. An elf or an alien may in some ways fulfill the same function, as a literary trope. It’s almost a matter of flavor. The ice cream can be chocolate or it can be strawberry, but it’s still ice cream. The real difference, to my mind, is between romantic fiction, which all these genres are a part of, and mimetic fiction, or naturalistic fiction.
Georges Simenon (1903–1989) Belgian writer
T. S. Eliot in the Sunday Times, 1952; cited from David Chinitz T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) p. 56
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Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 13, “The Fallen Sun” (p. 307).
“Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.”
John Hodgman book The Areas of My Expertise
Or, for that matter, as true.
Source: The Areas of My Expertise (2005), p. 18
