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> [Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-delbanco/fiction-is-a-web-of-lies-that-attempts-to-entangle-the-truth-and/)

[Nicholas Delbanco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-delbanco/)

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## More by Nicholas Delbanco

> [The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-delbanco/the-writer-gleans-wind-scraps-he-listens-wherever-he-can-each-day-is/)

[Nicholas Delbanco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-delbanco/)

> [“By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-delbanco/by-the-age-of-four-one-has-experienced-nearly-everything-one-needs-to/)

[Nicholas Delbanco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-delbanco/)

> [Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-delbanco/fiction-is-a-web-of-lies-that-attempts-to-entangle-the-truth-and/)

[Nicholas Delbanco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-delbanco/)

> [Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-delbanco/jesmyn-ward-returns-to-the-world-of-her-first-two-books-but-here-in/)

[Nicholas Delbanco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-delbanco/)

> [My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-delbanco/my-notion-of-a-failed-writing-workshop-is-when-everybody-comes-out/)

[Nicholas Delbanco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-delbanco/)

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