Believe Quote by Janette Rallison

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 tells the truth, after all.

— Neil Gaiman

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a…

— Steve Almond

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

— Stephen King

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

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or…

— George R. R. Martin

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

— Norman Mailer

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

— Tim O'Brien

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

— Kevin Kwan

Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives…

— Claire Messud

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

— Khaled Hosseini

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

— Dorothy Allison