Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

A film is -- or should be -- more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.