1. "Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book."    Lillian Hellman
2. "The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos."    Katherine Paterson
3. "Dreams are . . . illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you."    Marsha Norman
4. "Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."    Jessamyn West
5. "For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."    Louis Lamour
6. "The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world."    Anthony Burgess
7. "Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by."    Ralph Ellison
8. "'Tis strange-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction."    Lord Byron

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