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To: calrighty

I think that Mark Twain said that the main difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction has to be believable.


47 posted on 11/01/2005 9:57:53 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (Nature abhors a vacuum. So do cats.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Mark Twain "When I was young I could remember everything, even if it never happened"


48 posted on 11/01/2005 9:59:47 AM PST by calrighty (Taglines for sale or let......1 liners 50 cents! C'mon troops, finish em off!!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Oscar Wilde emphatically concludes that all the best stories are artful lies, in his essay The Decay of Lying


55 posted on 11/02/2005 7:58:57 AM PST by sully777 (The Religion Of Peace apparently kills!)
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