The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.
Mark TwainNoise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark TwainMy first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.
Mark Twain