"You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it."― Ernest Hemingway“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”― G.K. Chesterton“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”― Albert Camus
