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:
“The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
“I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)
“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)