Details Quote by Elizabeth Aston

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.

— Stephenie Meyer

I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up.…

— Edwidge Danticat

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or…

— Charles de Lint

“For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.”

— John Green

Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.

— Pamela Meyer

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there…

— Anton Chekhov

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

“That's stupid. Everyone lies." "Yeah, well, it's a waste of time. The more lies you tell the more stories you have to remember. Believe…

— Katie Klein

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“So let's just forget about the whole thing and agree never to speak of it again. And I promise I'll never lie to you…

— Jason Carter Eaton

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

— Tim O'Brien

People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the…

— Carl Sandburg