Ancient Quote by Anonymous

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological…

— Tom Robbins

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain…

— Tess Gerritsen

Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to…

— Dan Chaon

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you…

— Vikram Seth

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

— Joseph Conrad

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and…

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

— Neil Gaiman

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

— John McGahern