Fiction
The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality.
Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.
Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.
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Fiction Quotations
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Jimi Hendrix
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick
Fiction Translations
fiction in Dutch is fictie, verdichtsel, verbeelding
fiction in Finnish is kuvitelma
fiction in French is invention, fiction
fiction in German is Fiktion, Annahme {f}
fiction in Italian is invenzione, ipotesi
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