Fiction
The Wagh el-Birket features prominently in several novels by Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, particularly the Cairo Trilogy.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“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)
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer’s courage.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)