Books Quote by J.D. Brayton

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at…

— Michael Marshall

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

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Neil Gaiman

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad

“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.”

— Dorothy Allison

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 through which we tell the truth.

— Albert Camus

“Fiction is the evidence that reality exists”

— Max W. Miller

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

— Dorothy Allison

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

— Dorothy Allison