Fiction
- The Octopus: A Story of California, a 1901 novel by Frank Norris
- The Octopus (comics), a character in The Spirit
- OCTOPUS (fictional organisation), in the 2005 video game From Russia with Love
- The Octopus, a 1940 book by Elizabeth Dilling
- The Octopus, in the 1995 French film The City of Lost Children
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)
“Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ...”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)