Admire Quote by Diane Ackerman

Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

— Wally Lamb

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

— Angus Wilson

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

— Dorothy Allison

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you…

— Megan McCafferty

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with…

— Kevin Macdonald

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

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

— John McGahern

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

— Stephen King

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in…

— Jim Rohn