Fiction
St. Mungo finds a reference in the Harry Potter cycle of books, as the titular saint of St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. The namesake of the Hospital is, however, Mungo Bonham (1560 - 1659), an accomplished Healer. St Mungo is also referenced in the Father Brown series of books by G.K. Chesterton, as the titular saint of Father Brown's parish.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
“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)