Believe Quote by Charles Churchill

“Truth is not anchored to the ground by driven piles. It can float and take to the air; it is light and lovely and…

— Mark Helprin

Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on them; those…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

— Tim O'Brien

“The woman whose behavior indicates that she will make a scene if she is told the truth asks to be deceived.”

— Elizabeth Jenkins

“Fiction is the lie that illuminates a greater truth.”

— Kevin Fox

Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“A man knows, on perfectly good evidence, that a pretty girl of his acquaintance is a liar and cannot keep a secret and ought…

— C.S. Lewis

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are…

— R. D. Laing

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

— Wally Lamb

We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all…

— Jane Porter

“You will learn that when the truth isn't pretty, expected, or delivered with a fair dose of charm, people will almost always put their…

— H.G. Beverly

My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a…

— Diane Setterfield