An untrue story that is told for fun is called a fantasy.

If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one…

— George Mikes

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which…

— Anne Tyler

I do have the tan done now and again. I go for something called a Fantasy Tan.

— Debra Stephenson

I read 'The Last Wish' and really loved it. But I never would have called myself a fantasy writer before this. I've done some…

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is…

— Iris Murdoch

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,'…

— Terry Pratchett

“one thing that I realized early on in thinking about this book, when I found, to my consternation, that I was writing a fantasy.…

— Philip Pullman

“later you might discover that what you said is not true. When you do not know that what you are saying is untrue, you…

— Joy Berry

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or…

— George R. R. Martin

One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer…

— Walter Lippmann

“There’s a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don’t need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.”

— Harriet Lerner

I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but…

— Malcolm Turnbull

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

— William James

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.

— Vita Sackville-West