Fiction
- John H. Watson, known as Dr. Watson, fictional sidekick and biographer of detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories
- John Watson, known as Wonko the Sane, character from the novel So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish by Douglas Adams
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“We ignore thriller writers at our peril. Their genre is the political condition. They massage our dreams and magnify our nightmares. If it is true that we always need enemies, then we will always need writers of fiction to encode our fears and fantasies.”
—Daniel Easterman (b. 1949)