Air Quote by Jodi Picoult

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying…

— Rita Mae Brown

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are…

— Nina Bawden

If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all.

— Jed Mercurio

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

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

— Khaled Hosseini

I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

— Raymond Chandler

fiction is founded on truth…unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

— Agatha Christie

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

— Gail Caldwell

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.

— Janette Rallison

“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams…

— Neil Gaiman

“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived…

— Val Edward Simone

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