Definition of fiction

"fiction" in the noun sense

1. fiction

a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

2. fabrication, fiction, fable

a deliberately false or improbable account

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Quotations for fiction

Tales that have the rime of age. [ Longfellow ]

Every novel is a debtor to Homer. [ Emerson ]

Parent of golden dreams - romance! [ Byron ]

Fiction is the microscope of truth. [ Lamartine ]

Truth, severe by fairy fiction drest. [ Gray ]

An old novel has a history of its own. [ Alexander Smith ]

Fiction or fable allures to instruction. [ Franklin ]

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

More strange than true, I never may believe
These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. [ William Shakespeare ]

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. [ Coleridge ]

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye,
Men will believe, because they love the lie;
But truth herself, if clouded with a frown,
Must have some solemn proof to pass her down. [ Churchill ]

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. [ Byron ]

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction. [ Hazlitt ]

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit. [ Willmott ]

Fiction is a potent agent for good in the hands of the good. [ Mme. Necker ]

The good end happily, the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece. [ Roscommon ]

Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie, and teach that truth is truest poesy. [ Cowley ]

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. [ Burke ]

I have often maintained that fiction may be much more instructive than real history. [ John Foster ]

Who would with care some happy fiction frame, so mimics truth it looks the very same. [ Granville ]

He comes to you with a tale which holds children from play and old men from the chimney-corner. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. [ Arthur Helps ]

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature but what he was forced to ascribe it to many inconsistencies. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we and in fiction. [ J. G. Holland ]

The highest exercise of invention has nothing to do with fiction; but is an invention of new truth, what we can call a revelation. [ Carlyle ]

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well established authors. [ Whately ]

The greater portion of our lives is thrown away in fiction; it is only in maturer years that we awake to the stern realities of life. [ James Ellis ]

It was in his own home that Fielding knew and loved her (Amelia); from his own wife that he drew the most charming character in English fiction. [ Thackeray ]

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself. [ Macaulay ]

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction. [ Dryden ]

Friendship is impossible between men of high social standing and men in the lower walks of life; very difficult between a young man and a young woman; between two beautiful women, it is but a poetic fiction.

Fiction is no longer a mere amusement; but transcendent genius, accommodating itself to the character of the age, has seized upon this province of literature, and turned fiction from a toy into a mighty engine. [ Channing ]

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. [ Sir J. Mackintosh ]

To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big thing. This is truth, to me. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They do not pin the reader to a dogma which he must afterwards discover to be inexact; they do not teach him a lesson which he must afterwards unlearn. They repeat, they rearrange, they clarify the lessons of life. [ R. L, Stevenson ]

Addison acknowledged that he would rather inform than divert his reader; but he recollected that a man must be familiar with wisdom before he willingly enters on Seneca and Epictetus. Fiction allures him to the severe task by a gayer preface. Embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. [ Willmott ]

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed the laws of aesthetic beauty concur in maintaining that the real truthfulness of all works of imagination - sculpture, painting, written fiction - is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent the positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change - that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace. [ Tuckerman ]

The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth. [ Willmott ]

fiction in Scrabble®

The word fiction is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters fiction:

FICTION
(98 = 48 + 50)
FICTION
(98 = 48 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

fiction

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word fiction

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In fiction

FICTION
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FICTION
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fiction in Words With Friends™

The word fiction is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters fiction:

FICTION
(125 = 90 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

fiction

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word fiction

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Words within the letters of fiction

2 letter words in fiction (7 words)

3 letter words in fiction (11 words)

4 letter words in fiction (6 words)

5 letter words in fiction (3 words)

6 letter words in fiction (1 word)

7 letter words in fiction (1 word)

fiction + 1 blank (2 words)

fiction + 2 blanks (4 words)

Word Growth involving fiction

Shorter words in fiction

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Longer words containing fiction

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