Fiction Quote by John Fowles

“why did i so passionately require the truth? because all great fiction is true”

— Kinky Friedman

“Anyhow, my point is that you know now that nonfiction is never the entire truth, and fiction is almost never pure fabrication.”

— Ken Andersen

“Truth has the structure of a fiction.”

— Lacan

“Fiction is truth not limited by facts.”

— Peter Maughan

“The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.”

— Oakley Hall

“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your…

— Cassandra Clare

“a truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought”

— Tami Hoag

“Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world,…

— Alice Hoffman

“Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth.”

— Robert Crossley

“Who needed facts when fiction was so much more titillating?”

— Dee Tenorio

“He hated words. Words glossed every real thing with brittle artifice and deceit. Words were always lies, always intended to deceive even when they…

— Bill Granger

“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