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The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation.…

— Susan Sontag

“Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when…

— Michael Chabon

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

— Paul de Man

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a…

— Orhan Pamuk

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy…

— Cesare Pavese

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

— Julian Barnes

Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

— Mason Cooley

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

— Paul Auster

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on…

— Harlan Ellison

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

— Clifton Fadiman

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.

— Ursula K. Le Guin