Books Quote by Alessandra Torre

“I'm following it perfectly. Although, if this were a novel, I'd take the trouble to reread the last paragraph as carefully as possible.”

— César Aira

“What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.”

— Julian Barnes

“An author never lies. We do, however tend to speak in a fictional prose.”

— Carl Henegan

“I was seeing what a writer can do with the tatters of truth, the unfinished stories that give us no rest. ”

— Patricia O'Brien

“. . . Liesl & Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic -…

— Lauren Oliver

“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.”

— Dorothy Allison

“Read Between The "Lies" Not The Lines”

— Syed Sharukh

“Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

— Neil Gaiman

“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.”

— Wally Lamb

“Unfortunately, the story wasn’t a novel, and it wasn’t fiction.”

— Aleatha Romig

“I knew I must write a novel. But it seemed an impossible thing to do when I had been trying with great difficulty to…

— Hemingway Ernest

“There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.”

— W. Somerset Maugham