Knowledge Quote by Ernest Hemingway

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

— William Faulkner

What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?

— Joanne Harris

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

— Ernest Hemingway

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction…

— Paul Harding

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

— Wally Lamb

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

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged…

— Nicholas Delbanco

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

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

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are…

— Jo Nesbo