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In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.

Percy Lubbock
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Percy Lubbock (2007). “The Craft of Fiction”, p.56, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.