In Fiction
| Scene from In Which We Serve |
The 1942 British war film In Which We Serve centres around a group of survivors clinging to a Carley float. As they suffer from the elements, the story of how they came to be there is told through a series of flashbacks.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“My mother ... believed fiction gave one an unrealistic view of the world. Once she caught me reading a novel and chastised me: “Never let me catch you doing that again, remember what happened to Emma Bovary.””
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)