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When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.


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OSCAR WILDE Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look som...
OSCAR WILDE When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
OSCAR WILDE There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows...
OSCAR WILDE One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually u...
OSCAR WILDE The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
OSCAR WILDE This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
OSCAR WILDE From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point...
OSCAR WILDE His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except ...
OSCAR WILDE An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work o...
OSCAR WILDE Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succ...
OSCAR WILDE I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
OSCAR WILDE He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
OSCAR WILDE