All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be…

“Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth.”

— Robert Crossley

“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”

— V.S. Naipaul

“let’s get our semantics straight. Story does not equal fiction, much less “lies.” It’s the world we Christians inhabit as “people of the Book.”…

— Sarah Arthur

“The tangible and intangible collide to cast a spell. But can a person or thing ever be stripped naked? Can we ever discover reality…

— Siri Hustvedt

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

“He rolled his eyes. "Fiction lies for the truth.”

— Kristine Grayson

“The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction.”

— Róbert Gál

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

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

— Helen McCloy

“I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped…

— John Green

“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the…

— KGE Konkel

“I know he says it’s a mind upload problem,” said Aideen. “But we won’t know that for sure until we get there. And maybe…

— Steven Decker

If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in…

— Charles Lindbergh

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

— Joseph Campbell

Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In…

— Gertrude B. Elion