Lagoon Nebula - in Fiction

Famous quotes containing the word fiction:

“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)

“If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)