Books Quote by Isabel Allende

The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Tim O'Brien

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

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

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

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

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that…

— Elizabeth Aston

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

— Dorothy Allison

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

— Paul Auster

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

— Dorothy Allison